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...longing the serene beauty of the Samarian hills, the sweet-smelling orange groves of Jericho, the mellow light of the Old City of Jerusalem. There is an air of great antiquity about the place, as if history had paused there and left its indelible imprint. Gnarled olive trees cling to the arid slopes, and oxen and donkeys plow the terraced hillsides, much as they did when Jesus walked the paths of Palestine. In the evenings, women still gather at the village well to fill their earthen jugs, while in the thorny Judean hills, shepherds sing the same melancholy songs their...
Summer festivals cling depressingly to Top 40 programs of classics...
...bicoastal trio stubbornly cling to their surplus pounds. They skip yoga ("Imagine you're a pink cloud," urges the teacher). They miss pool exercises, which involve strenuous efforts to drown plastic balls by pushing them "down ... aaand down .. . aaand harder, again!" During Shintaido, an unlikely hybrid of martial arts and modern dance that starts with an excruciating series of froglike hops, the trio sit in the lobby complaining. They are wondering about flights to Las Vegas when Karma Kientzler finds them...
...wake of Vellucci's statement late last week that he would continue to press for a relaxation of the condo codes for the Linnaean and Washington tenants, the mayor's five-part housing initiative announced earlier in the week seems only a smokescreen for his desire to cling to the condo issue as a source of political strength...
Though Antarctica gets less precipitation than the Sahara (less than 2 in. a year), nearly two-thirds of the world's fresh water is locked up in the polar icecap. Even bacteria are barely able to cling to life in the interior, but the coastal regions abound with seals and penguins, to say nothing of the whales that come from round the world to winter in Antarctica's icy, protein-rich waters...