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...billion Amount Israeli businessman Avi Shaked has offered to pay Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya if he reaches a peace accord with Israel...
...Noah to Moses to Jesus to Muhammad,” he says. “There’s a sense that it’s the same strand, the same spirit, the same idea, really the same religion that has been passed along.”Rabbi Avi Poupko of Harvard Hillel says Abraham is one of the most influential figures in the Jewish faith. “He’s the first Israelite, the one who started everything,” Poupko says.Poupko says that the project appears to draw on a distinctly Christian tradition of walking...
...country’s immediate reaction to the attacks.Yet somehow rage, an inevitable byproduct of constrained sorrow, yields prophecy and deeper insight. In “The Great New Wonderful,” Satish’s anger boils over and he kicks his disarming colleague and neighbor Avi (Naseeruddin Shah) to the ground—a stunningly brutal act. Then, as Avi stands, he delivers a simple but crucial lesson contained in all 9/11 art: “Life is very short, my friend. We should all know that by now.”—Columnist Kyle...
...extra gigabytes come in handy for video, too. A media converter program that accompanies the player automatically reformats all kinds of video files so that they look decent on the Sansa. I loaded up AVI, QuickTime MOV and WMV files, in addition to several different types of MPEG video, and the system didn't balk at any of it. I even loaded a full-length feature film - Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle - and though the system divided it up into small chapters, I could watch the whole movie. It wasn't easy to make out a letterboxed widescreen film...
...DARK AGES The death of the mega-stars triggered the formation of normal stars, creating the first recognizable dwarf galaxies. Their radiation in turn burned through the remaining shrouds of hydrogen, bringing the dark ages to a close TIME Graphic by Joe Lertola Sources: Professor Avi Loeb, Harvard University; Professor Richard Ellis, Caltech...