Word: faithfull
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Pensions, the steady stream of income granted in return for years of faithful service, were once supposed to offer a dependable security blanket for millions of older Americans. Lately, though, pension-fund values have been devastated by stock market losses and historically low interest rates on fixed-income securities. "That...
Last month Turner and her husband Ray played host to such a celebration at their home in San Jose, Calif. About 30 participants drove in from as far away as Oakland. After meeting and greeting and strolling the meditation labyrinth in Turner's backyard, the group held something resembling a...
The artists and programmers of Anatomical Travelogue huddle over their desks like monks in a scriptorium. Their quills are superfast HP workstations in the center of an industrial-chic penthouse in Manhattan's trendy Tribeca neighborhood. Their manuscripts are digital scans of the body, illuminated into images so startlingly vivid...
Like their geological counterparts, the fault lines of history seem to converge on the countries of the Mediterranean basin. It was in the Spanish city of Granada that King Boabdil, the last Moorish monarch of Muslim al-Andalus, made his final stand against the Christian forces of the reconquista before...
After several twists, turns and compromises, the mosque is up and running, built with €4 million in donations from Muslim countries. Were it topped by a Christian cross, the minaret would scarcely be distinguishable from the towers of the surrounding churches. As it is, the biggest distinction is the...