Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about a golem, the Jewish proto-Frankenstein monster. Publishers are turning out dozens of titles on subjects ranging from arcana to kids' Kabbalah. Most intriguing, mysticism is increasingly viewed as the answer to what United Jewish Appeal officer Alan Bayer calls "a hungry, thirsty, bottle-of-water-in-the-desert need for connection with transcendent meanings" among ordinary Jews. Concludes Brandeis University professor Arthur Green, a scholar and advocate of mysticism: "For nearly 200 years, Western Jews tried to hide Kabbalah under the rug. Now it's been rediscovered and reclaimed as part of the Jewish legacy...
...stock up on food and live in the desert. Naturally, I'd get cable...
AMMAN, Jordan: In one of the more humiliating retreats since MacArthur left the Philippines, U.S. arms inspectors arrived here Friday after a grueling night drive across the Iraqi desert ? having been forced out of Baghdad by Saddam Hussein a day ahead of their international colleagues...
Studying nomads comes naturally to Nicola Di Cosmo, associate professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, who has held bit parts in Chinese movies, carried oxygen tanks for the Venetian health department and rebuffed wrestling challenges by drunken Mongolians in the middle of Gobi desert...
...able to physically drop out at 14," says Shari Gonzales, head of Rio Rancho's first-year academy, "but mentally they can." After two months, it is too early to tell if Rio Rancho will prevent that. But if education reforms are worth anything, this high-desert incubator, perched Acropolis-like over the Rio Grande Valley, means to show and tell. --By Margot Hornblower/Rio Rancho...