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...fixed, alerted me to the present danger of a problem that we've watched fester for years, but never thought would actually happen. While letting insurance companies "bargain" for them, some patients have been priced right out of the market. You should check into this right now. Is your local hospital on your health plan...
Kramer, who took over the book store after the death of his father Mark, said that he is not in a hurry to sell and plans to wait for the right buyer. After the sale, he intends to then invest more time in the organization of local businesses he helped to found, Cambridge Local First...
...when Bethlehem was a town in a sleepy province of the Ottoman Empire, a local man built a magnificent house on the main road from Jerusalem to Hebron. Made from the region's limestone-whose shades, from pale honey to dazzling white, give the Holy Land its distinctive palette-the house was built around courtyards and fountains in the Ottoman style; frescoes and mosaics graced its walls and ceilings. In the 1930s, the man's family went bankrupt. The house was later used as a prison by the British, when they governed Palestine under a League of Nations mandate...
...beyond flowed through the halls of the hotel, past banks of honeysuckle and jasmine, into the garden, where cooks grilled chicken on giant charcoal burners and served baba ghanoush, tabbouleh and baklava. Participants at a conference on investment opportunities in Palestine, they talked up the prospects of the local information-technology industry (whose products, which can be whizzed to markets electronically, are not subject to the whims of Israeli border guards) and bragged about the performance of the Palestine stock exchange. At the center of the crowd-trim, smiling and looking a lot more relaxed than he did a year...
Such measures could help to combat underreporting of sexual abuse, but may not address the heart of the issue: accountability. If the U.N. is unable to properly punish offenders, and local authorities in at-risk areas are unwilling to do so, abusers remain free. That impunity is an additional blow for children victimized not only by poverty and hardship, but in some cases by the very people sent to protect them...