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...Harvard Hillel last night to discuss and sample Israeli Cuisine and learn about its evolution throughout the nation’s history. The talk, led by Naor Ben-Yehoyada, a teaching fellow for Social Analysis 70: “Food and Culture,” gave students a crash course in Israeli food and culinary traditions. The history of Jewish and Israeli food is largely intertwined with Israel’s turbulent history, but according to Ben-Yehoyada, “what we eat doesn’t travel along the same lines as our politics...

Author: By Laura M. Fontanills, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Eat, Discuss Jewish History | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...investors already wounded by the global economic crash, news of a potential pandemic came as a further blow. "As if we didn't have enough to contend with," strategists at the Royal Bank of Scotland wrote in a note to clients Monday, "it's just what we need now, a flu pandemic in the midst of the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression." Amid the sell-off, travel industry stocks fell sharpest. Shares in Lufthansa, Europe's second-largest airline, tumbled by more than 12% before recovering slightly. Those of rival British Airways pulled back from similar lows, trading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swine Flu Virus Infects World Stock Markets | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...speech in which he said nasty, provocative things about Israel, leading to international uproar. Controversy is nothing new for Ahmadinejad, whose previous remarks—including “The American empire in the world is reaching the end” and “Israel is about to crash. This is God’s promise and the wish of all the world’s nations”—are notorious...

Author: By Adrienne Y. Lee | Title: No Shows | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...This was a tragic issue on the magnitude of losing a basketball team in an airplane crash.' JOHN WASH, president of club operations at Florida's International Polo Club Palm Beach, where 21 ponies mysteriously collapsed and died before a tournament match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...course, there were cult movies, and Ballard became best known for those: Steven Spielberg's WW II epic Empire of the Sun and David Cronenberg's adaptation of Crash, the 1996 shock flick that caused a stunned moral panic in Britain 23 years after Ballard's novel was published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: J.G. Ballard | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

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