Word: israel
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...lobbyists, analysts and politicians urged close to 100 Boston-area college students to get involved in local politics at yesterday's day-long conference titled "Boston, Israel...
...into a sort of postmodern James Bond villain--one part Goldfinger, one part Woody Allen. He had eluded authorities for four months while traveling with a retinue of women, as rumors spread of his living large while lying low. Law-enforcement officials at first suspected that he was in Israel, then Brazil, and finally admitted they had no idea where...
...your listing of key issues facing Syria [WORLD, Oct. 18], you noted, "In talks with Israel, Syria seeks [water] rights to Lake Tiberius and the Jordan River." The correct name is Lake Tiberias, as it is named after the famous ancient city of Tiberias and not after Tiberius the Roman Emperor. Most readers may be more familiar with the name Sea of Galilee. It is also called Lake of Gennesar in ancient sources, after the settlement on the northwestern coast of the Sea of Galilee. If names mean anything, then these clearly connect this body of water with geographic areas...
...witty and wonderful. You may help keep them healthy. According to a study published Monday in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, elderly people who encounter positive images and feedback about aging may actually function better than those who encounter negative stereotypes. Experiments conducted at Harvard and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston yielded results that further the theory that physical health is very much affected by a person's state of mind. In part of the study, two groups of elderly people were asked to walk down a long hallway, and their gait and speed were measured...
...WOODSON MERRELL is executive director of the Beth Israel Center for Health and Healing in New York City