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...more sustainably back home." The workshops at Cape Sounio - which start from $87 for a three-hour session - include inventive games and activities ranging from underwater photography safaris to playing with solar power: kids are shown how to use the sun to run machines, make paper and even cook Greek pizza...
...have taken a multifaceted approach to reviewing the complex issue of childhood obesity. In all this, a key message from centuries ago, attributed to Greek philosopher Solon, needs to become resoundingly clear to parents, children and youth, educators and health practitioners: "Nothing in excess." G.D. Gilmore, La Crosse, Wisconsin...
...Dutch ran riot over them in their opening match, 3-0. We also got hauled off the road in Salzburg by a motorcycle cop who insisted, in German, that our license plate was illegal. We nervously nodded and nodded in English and waited and waited until, just like the Greek team, he gave up and went home...
...That arrangement can be politically uncomfortable: when Belgian Defense Minister Pieter De Crem admitted for the first time in January that the country even housed U.S. weapons, the revelation caused a national controversy, with opposition MPs demanding - in vain - for them to be removed immediately. In 2001, when the Greek air force ordered a new fighter jet, it chose a model that could not carry the B-61, forcing the U.S. to withdraw its weapons...
...translation error, when Hebrew scripture was rendered into Greek, added to the allure of the creature now known as the unicorn. The wild ox, a now-extinct creature rendered in bas relief profiles with one horn, was translated in Greek as monokeros or one-horned. In the Latin bible of the Christian world that became unicornos and "unicorn" by the time the English translators of King James got to work. And so, God impresses His power upon Job by saying, "Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with...