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...steep--up to $200 a day for a bed--but worth it. Before such products were available and widely covered by Medicare and private insurance, recalls Joe Sacco of Central Medical Supplies in Long Valley, N.J., "we'd see patients sleeping on top of plywood propped up on cinder blocks." CMS's sales of heavy-duty beds have doubled in the past year...
...Pearl was imprisoned in a small, cinder-block house surrounded by a garden that, in retrospect, was one of the first places in Karachi the police should have searched. The garden was owned by a local businessman, Saud Memon, who was a well-known jihadi with ties to al-Rasheed Trust. This charity was a major backer of the Taliban, and after the regime's collapse, police say, Memon used the garden hut to shelter Taliban and al-Qaeda fugitives. Karim told police that on the day of Pearl's killing, either Jan. 29 or Jan. 30, Karim's boss...
...town of Silwan, nestled below the southern wall of the Old City, is a fairly typical Jerusalem-area Arab village--densely settled, tense and poor. But it does possess one distinction: numerous 1st century subterranean Jewish burial caves, some of which now double as basements for Silwan's rough cinder-block houses. Unofficial excavations by residents and by professional looters, although illegal, have long supplied the antiquities market with pots, lamps and other artifacts. According to the ossuary's owner, the dealer who sold it to him told him it was found in the Silwan area. The owner says...
Nowhere are AIT's defenses more on display than at its 25,000-sq.-ft. data center, packed with server computers that are the lifeblood of the company. The building is made of reinforced 8-in. concrete cinder blocks, surrounded by sandbags and a 6-ft.-high chain-link, barbed-wire-topped fence. In case anyone should ever penetrate those barriers, AIT keeps an arsenal of weapons, including shotguns, in a storage room nearby. Any security breach triggers a bevy of alarms and a lock-down mode. (So far, the only serious threat has been the possibility of looting during...
...movement thus far has pressed up against a question that didn't complicate the fight against apartheid: At what point does opposition to Israeli policy slide into the mud fields of old-fashioned anti-Semitism? At U.C. Berkeley on the first night of Passover, someone threw a cinder block through the glass door of the campus Hillel center for Jewish students and spray painted the words F--- JEWS on the wall. Around the same time, Jewish students were assaulted on their way to or from campus. Though there's no evidence to suggest a link, the divestment campaign turned into...