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Enter Matt. By 1995 he had taught Jewish mysticism at the university level, written a book comparing Cabala and scientific cosmology, and translated some Zohar excerpts. Nevertheless he was stunned when Margot Pritzker, wife of the chairman of the Hyatt Corp., who was studying the book, offered to bankroll a full translation. "I told her, optimistically, that it might take 18 years," Matt says. "And she said, 'You're not scaring...
...plan "may be a helpful Band-Aid," says E. Richard Brown, director of UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research. "But it won't stop the hemorrhaging." What's needed, he says, is not a fragmented free market but "a publicly accountable and organized system of health insurance." --By Margot Roosevelt, with reporting by Logan Orlando
...There's a lot of pent-up volume," says Scott Davis, founder of ViaGen, a biotech company based in Austin, Texas, that charges $15,000 to clone a cow and $4,000 for a pig. "A clone has to be bred for you to get back your investment." --By Margot Roosevelt
...Institute for Community Resource Development, has teamed up with five Chicago universities to study Austin's broader food needs. They have already started nutrition classes and salad bars in neighborhood schools and are planning to build a large food coop. Says Redmond: "Eating is a political act." --By Margot Roosevelt
...overcome the bitterness. "You feel hopeless," Salbi says. "Then a stranger writes to say, 'I care. I am listening to you.'" Last year women in the program exchanged 44,000 letters. Salbi is looking to expand. Says she: "It is cheaper to build peace than go to war." --By Margot Roosevelt