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...Conservative and Orthodox couples. But some Jewish couples have turned to more personalized versions of the get. Rabbi Lisa S. Greene of Glencoe, Ill., helped Laura Milsk design a ceremony. It took place on the shores of Lake Michigan, where Laura, sans husband, prayed and tossed pieces of bread into the chilly water. "My sense is that Laura made a journey and returned as a whole person," says Rabbi Greene. "The ritual was a positive rather than a mournful step...
...city and during the Hajj everyone must have a pilgrim pass. The super-rich take a suite at the Intercontinental overlooking the Grand Mosque, paying $15,000 for the stay. Others find humbler lodgings. At 2 a.m., Abdur Rashid, an Indian engineer employed in Jeddah, is eating kebabs and bread with his wife in the open square in front of the mosque. "They are asking for 500 riyals ($145) for a room in the hotels," he says. "It's nice enough here, and in a little while we'll move into the mosque and sleep." While pilgrims pump an estimated...
Shops that stay open around the clock are traditionally associated with life's basic necessities - bread, say, or gasoline. But over the past three years in Prague, a different kind of convenience store has mushroomed. Specializing in the resale of mobile phones, these outlets offer not only 24-hour service, but inviting price tags, with the bulk of their handsets in the $100 range. Police believe most of the phones are stolen, but complicated Czech proof-of-ownership laws render them almost powerless to prosecute. And in a country where almost 11,000 cell phones were reported stolen...
...anyone was upset. “I have no problem bringing Albert Speer here,” said one academic, an expert on Germany. “It’s no different than hiring a good physicist who thinks Adolf Hitler is the best invention since sliced bread.” A professor of European history, meanwhile, said, “personally, I think it’s admirable that Speer has served for that government...
...November. He has been hiding out ever since, surrounded by ten bodyguards, moving from house to house and sending the Alliance and CIA on occasional high speed chases across the desert around Mazar. "He only drinks bottled Pepsi from the shops and lives almost entirely on cakes and bread." says one Alliance agent. "If he eats with a family in their home, he always swaps his plate with the one given to the head of the house. He only moves at night, and he has a bag of dollars in his car to buy his safety. His guards are always...