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...raging in the Middle East. It is not the usual Arab-Jewish conflict but instead a Jew-against-Jew struggle to determine the character of Jerusalem -- and by extension, the very nature of the state of Israel. On one side, wearing beards, side curls, long black coats and fur-rimmed hats, are the ultra-Orthodox militants, who want all Israelis to live according to the strict dictates of the halakhah, or religious law. On the other side, constituting the vast majority of the country's 4.3 million citizens, are the secular Jews, who believe Israel should be a modern democracy...
...wetlands. You're looking at the genocide of an entire ecosystem," says Oliver Houck, a Louisiana environmental lawyer. Indeed, the loss of the state's marshes affects more than just local residents: the area provides almost 30% of the nation's fish harvest and 40% of the fur catch, and is a winter habitat for some two-thirds of the migratory birds in the Mississippi flyway. Says Oysterman Matthew Farac, speaking of the 32-mile stretch from the mouth of the Mississippi to Empire, La.: "There is no land left. It's all gone...
...Bakker contends, money is the most pressing problem. Asked who owns his house, which is held in a still unexplained trust, he says about one-half is his. Where are the cars, the fur coats, the alleged secret funds from PTL? He refuses to answer. "I have about $50,000 cash to my name, and my daughter has $50,000 saved from her music work, which she'll probably loan me if I need it." The thought makes him erupt into laughter. Then the sad face again. "Together our family has about $100,000," he says. He reddens at this...
...which anyone had observed the phenomenon. Could this result be correct? Aware of some hastily made superconductivity claims that later could not be reproduced, the IBM team proceeded cautiously, painstakingly repeating their experiments. In April 1986, Muller and Bednorz finally submitted the findings to the German journal Zeitschrift fur Physik, which published it five months later...
...would not be the first time that Wilson, who is chairman of the sociology department at the University of Chicago, had set the fur flying. Almost a decade ago his first study of the underclass, The Declining Significance of Race, outraged militant black scholars by claiming that the victories won by the civil rights movement had made racial discrimination less important than economic class in determining the "life chances" of individual blacks. The Association of Black Sociologists condemned the book for omitting "significant data regarding the continuing discrimination against blacks at all class levels" and warned that it might...