Word: greeks
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...Holocaust is not the focus of Centropa or the other documentation projects now under way, it is the coda that elevates their significance. Judit's father Imre died in 1945 on a forced march to Germany. Her older brother Gabor, a brilliant scholar who, like Judit, was baptized a Greek Catholic, was killed when he confessed to a concentration camp guard at Buchenwald that he was "only" a student and had no profession. He was doused with water and allowed to freeze to death. Those deaths were a terrible loss. Even after the war, says Judit Kinszki, she would...
...click of worry beads was the loudest sound in many shops across Greece last week, as consumers staged a 24-hour shoppers' boycott. Like others in the euro zone, Greek consumers are irate about the rising prices that accompanied the launch of the single currency. Merchants are accused of rounding prices up, and talk of the weather is being displaced by anecdotes about how cups of coffee have doubled in price. Some moaning is justified: in Greece, studies show, the price of an average "basket" of goods has risen 10%, and surveys in France and Italy find similar increases. According...
...newly formed Abu Nidal Organization (also known as Fatah Revolutionary Council) planted a bomb on a TWA plane flying from Athens to Rome, killing all 88 people on board. Abu Nidal went on to mastermind attacks on a Jewish school in Antwerp, synagogues in Vienna and Istanbul, and a Greek tourist ship. In December 1985 his group ambushed the El Al ticket counters at Rome and Vienna airports, killing 14 bystanders...
...engineered mice that lacked the gene for making this hormone developed ravenous appetites and became grossly obese. When these same mice were injected with the missing hormone, they shrugged off a third of the weight they had gained. The researchers dubbed the new hormone leptin, after leptos, which is Greek for thin...
...Stone's The Summer of My Greek Taverna (Simon & Schuster; 250 pages) is concerned with pleasures of an earthier kind: food, drink, sun and sand. When a friend offers Stone a chance to run a restaurant on the tiny Greek island of Patmos, he jumps at it. He obviously hasn't heard the one about Greeks and gifts, and he soon discovers that his new job is less like Zorba the Greek and more like Kitchen Confidential with ouzo. Stone has to deal with tourists who party till dawn, fishermen who want their coffee at 7 a.m., gossipy locals...