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...most extraordinary medical dialogue, however, has occurred not face to face but over the air waves. For the past five years, Israeli radio has broadcast to the Arab world a program called Tabib warn al microphone (Doctor Behind the Microphone). Originated by an Iraqi-born Israeli woman named Ilana Basri and broadcast every Friday (the Moslem day of worship), it features a kind of "Dear Abby." During the 30-min. program, Israeli doctors reply directly to Arab correspondents who write in with their complaints...
...course, do not regard the activity merely as a Sunday or vacation sport but as part of everyday existence. Harvard English Professor Joel Porte, for example, sold his car four years ago, and hasn't "even been tempted" to own one since. Instead, Porte, 36, and his wife Ilana, 31, get by on ordinary $35 three-speed English bicycles; he makes the trip from Belmont, a Boston suburb, to the Cambridge campus in 17 minutes flat. Last week, just before her first baby was due, Mrs. Porte was still running errands by bike...