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...present, only about 25,000 Israelis, mostly pioneers motivated by a desire to live in the ancient land of Abraham and Jacob, live on the West Bank, along with some 900,000 Palestinian Arabs. With the arrival of middle-class Israelis in search of cheap, uncrowded suburbs, the Israeli population in the occupied territory could double within two years. That is what the Israeli government has in mind, even though President Reagan, in his peace plan offered last September, specifically asked Israel to stop all new settlements until the status of the West Bank has been determined through negotiations...
...game-show magnate and CBS-TV president Louis G Cowan Paul grew up in a totally assimilated New York home. His father read Dickens' A Christmas Carol aloud each Christmas eve and never spoke of his impoverished father Jacob Cohen, the descendant of respected Lithuanian rabbis At Choate, though, Paul encountered vicious anti-Semitism, from his peers. The experience made him piece together the memories of unexplained moments in his childhood--his father evading a question, or his mother insisting that the Holocaust gave Jews a special responsibility to fight social injustice--into a curiosity about his ancestral religion...
Yesterday's conference is part of a growing effort that has united medical researchers from around the state. "We're doing most of our work through professional organizations," said Jacob Shapiro radiological health and safety engineer at University Health Services...
Most of the radioactive waste Harvard researchers produce has a half time of less than 90 days and can be kept in storage rooms around the University for two or three years and then safety thrown away. Jacob Shapiro radiological health and safety engineer to UHS said yesterday...
SUCH DISSECTION makes one painfully aware not just of Jacob's essential un funny-ness as a commentator--she takes Woody with too much desperate seriousness to get any further than a string of "this is hysterical" --but also the delicacy of the task she has taken on. If writing about Woody seemed like a glowing, as-yet-un-snatched opportunity, the flip side is that a talent so multifaceted and subtle as his cannot be helpfully reduced to a series of art-vs.-life and success-vs.-integrity conflicts, or even to a run-of-the-mill Freudian manifestation...