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...phenomenon fed by ethnic differences. Sephardim tend to live in small towns, raise large families, and to eat foods that even now reflect their Spanish heritage. Rice, for example, is permitted during Passover. Ashkenazim tend to make their homes in the city or the kibbutz, and are often lighter in skin, eye color and hair than the Sephardim. The two groups' religious rituals differ markedly...
More cooperation between countries will ensue from the elimination of 150 nationalistic sovereign states. His plans include an electric energy network grid extending across the world, making energy consumption more efficient, recycling resources, and using lighter alloys. He also seeks to eliminate worthless occupations--such as insurance agencies--because these services should be provided outside the market...
...programs continued last week, audiences seemed to be responding well to Baryshnikov's changes: the new faces, the precision of the corps, the buoyancy of Airs, the lighter, faster approach to that sentiment-drenched standby, Les Sylphides. The director himself was dancing brilliantly...
Today Seagram sells $2.5 billion worth of alcoholic beverages annually; 70% of that goes to the U.S. But sales of its two top brands, Seven Crown and V.O. Canadian whisky, have slipped in recent years as the American public has switched to lighter drinks and wine. Bacardi rum has displaced Seven Crown as the country's bestselling brand...
...pros by winning 34 fights, earning some $500,000 and taking the championship from James J. Braddock -all in three years. He did not waste words, either: "As soon as I catch 'em, I put 'em to sleep." When critics doubted that he could take the lighter, classier Billy Conn in 1941, Louis observed, "He can run, but he can't hide...