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Yet all this exuberant rebirth is, in a strict sense, illegal. Not a single nation in the world recognizes the Israeli annexation of East Jerusalem. And when the Knesset voted in 1980 that a reunited Jerusalem was, in the words of Prime Minister Menachem Begin, "the eternal capital of our...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: City of Protest and Prayer | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

International controversy tends to imbue not just flowers but everything about Jerusalem with a nervous symbolism. Particularly state visitors. Thus French President Francois Mitterrand ceremonially carried a beribboned sheaf of flowers to the eternal flame at the Holocaust memorial of Yad Vashem last month, but he politely refused to go...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: City of Protest and Prayer | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

In 1980 two Johns Hopkins University researchers tried to settle the eternal nature/ nurture debate. Julian Stanley - who is well respected for his work with precocious math students of both sexes - and Camilla Benbow had tested 10,000 talented seventh-and eighth-graders between 1972 and 1979. Using the Scholastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Who Is Really Better at Math? | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

Historically, America imagined that it did not have to concern itself with the global equilibrium, because geography and a surplus of power enabled it to await events in isolation. Two schools of thought developed. Liberals treated foreign policy as a subdivision of psychiatry, conservatives as an aspect of theology. Liberals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DETENTE DILEMMA | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

"With all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt," says Leviticus 2:13. Because of its use as a preservative, salt became a token of permanence to the Jews of the Old Testament. Its use in Hebrew sacrifices as a meat purifier came to signify the eternal covenant between God and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: History According to Salt | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

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