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...Christmas holidays to sustain them through lean months are struggling. Israel's 43.3 billion tourism industry is in slump as well Hotel bookings are down 10-20 percent from last year and airlines are facing a similar drop. The tourism industry is hoping that potential tourists will once again flock to Israel once a successful resolution to the Hebron talks is reached...
...Friday, the day before the Yale and-Harvard varsity football teams faced off in Harvard Stadium surrounded by the fanfare of tailgates and band duals, a flock of hardy IM participants took to the barren, nameless fields (the J.V. soccer fields or the fields behind the Palmer Dixon tennis courts) to decide the nation's leader in IM aptitude...
...NASA is scheduled to launch an unmanned craft that should be orbiting Mars by this time next year. Ten days later, Russia will fire off a second one, and two weeks after that, NASA will loft a third. If all goes well, NASA hopes to loose a flock more during the next 10 years. "After a hiatus of 20 years," says NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin, "America returns to Mars...
Thus, scores of seniors flock to the requisite information sessions for these two fields. There seems to be at least one every night in the Faculty Club or the Charles Hotel, and they're all pretty much the same. You'll see the same students and hear the same cliches about "adding value" and thinking strategically at most of them...
...evolution, impulses such as gluttony, greed, even lust, were often blunted by scarcity. Only amid the material abundance that came with agriculture and grew thereafter could self-indulgence regularly reach grotesque levels. (Sodom and Gomorrah lay in the fertile plains. Their residents sinned amid plenty while Abraham herded his flock in rustic innocence on dryer terrain.) Similarly, anger acquired a new layer of evil with the invention of knives and spears, to say nothing of guns...