Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MENGISTU'S GOVERNMENT has contributed to the carnage. As Ethiopian forces have gained control over rebellious provinces, they have promulgated "anti-Zionist" policies Hebrew teachers and religious leaders are arrested, imprisoned and tortured; their schools, closed. In The New York Times. Steven Bauman--an authority on the rampages--recently disclosed that one ex-prisoner, a religious leader accused of being a pro-Zionist ringleader, revealed to him the following incident...
...archaeologists, who are often accused of grave robbing, the Indian war cries should come as no surprise. Only a few months ago, militant Orthodox Jews in Israel clashed with police during protests against excavations in an area of Old Jerusalem considered sacred ground, a medieval Hebrew cemetery. A year before his death, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat urged that Cairo's collection of mummies be closed to the public and eventually reburied. They were not merely objects of scientific or public curiosity but hallowed human remains and thus deserving of respect...
...that goes on the end of a doohickey understands the problem of trying to get a whatchamacallit in a foreign language. So did the merchants of northern Chicago's Lincoln Village Shopping Center. To fill the needs of customers who increasingly speak only such languages as Japanese, Spanish, Hebrew, French and Greek, Lincoln Village has opened Language Line, a linguistic service that can help locate gizmos for speakers of foreign tongues...
Radday and three aides studied "the only unquestionable data," the words of the Hebrew text, and concentrated on 56 criteria of "language behavior" (such as use of conjunctions and word length) that are outside the conscious control of an author. The key finding: a remarkably high 82% probability that the same person wrote the supposed J and E passages. The P passages were as distinct as the critics have long maintained, but Radday contends that the difference can be explained totally by the formalistic content. Says he: "My love letters to my wife are completely different from my scholarly articles...
...Hebrew University Physiologist Jacob Steiner told the scientists that all tastes and smells accelerate the heart rates of adolescents. A sweet taste speeds the heart by 2% or 3%, bitter and sour tastes race the pulse 17% to 20% faster. Steiner, in long-term test studies of infants, discovered that first reactions to smells are inborn, not acquired. Newborns react positively to pleasant odors and screw up their faces in response to unpleasant ones, even before they have tasted any food...