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...figure is 50%. In Ukraine, where mammography machines are available, if not plentiful, a shortage of film requires that doctors choose between taking the recommended two-view image of a patient's breasts and taking a one-view image of twice as many women. As for a desperately poor land like Kenya? If you can't travel overseas for treatment, says Mary Onyango, a resident of the country whose disease was diagnosed at age 40, "you just sit and wait for your death." Says Nancy Brinker, founder of the Komen group: "Poverty is a known carcinogen...
...years after his 10-year term as Israel's chief rabbi, Avraham Shapira was considered a sage by the religious right. Yet for many Israelis, the Talmudic scholar was a hard-line zealot whose theology--that Israel was land given by God to the Jews--anchored the settlers' movement and helped bring about the assassination of peace advocate Yitzhak Rabin. In 2005, despite his call for soldiers to disobey orders to evacuate disputed land or else risk disaster, the "disengagement" succeeded with little violence...
...movie for everybody. You can't go into it trying to alienate people, but you have to assume that you're going to." Of course, this unconventionality may all be youthful hubris; Johnny Depp was a contrarian once too, and then he became the pirate king of sequel land...
...they’re not my family, and I was in a country where familial ties are vital. I found myself—an agnostic half-Jew, at best—quoting Exodus 2:22 for comfort: “I have been a stranger in a strange land...
...while dwelling in a land without my people, I participated in three conversations about Judaism that are lodged in my brain. I offer them here, not to teach a lesson or recount any epiphanies (I didn’t have any), but to provoke questions that might lack answers. Please feel free to contact me if you can figure out what they mean, because I sure as hell don?...