Word: massing
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...KIRSTEN AUSTAD, SIMEON KIMMEL, SHAMSHER SAMRA, and DAVID TIAN Boston, Mass. March...
...RESIDENT TUTORS OF MATHER HOUSE Cambridge, Mass. April...
...Frenchman named Isaac Singer invented a matzo-dough-rolling machine that cut down on the dough's prep time and made mass production possible. But changes to 3,000-year-old religious traditions never go smoothly, and Singer's invention became a hot-button issue for 19th century Jewish authorities. In 1959, a well-known Ukrainian rabbi named Solomon Kluger published an angry manifesto against machine-made matzo, while his brother-in-law, Rabbi Joseph Saul Nathanson, published a defense. Jewish communities around the world weighed in on the issue - arguing that handmade matzo provided kneading jobs for the poor...
...unemployed, according to a June 2008 report by the South African Medical Journal. In 2007, East London's Daily Dispatch newspaper revealed that poor maternity care at the city's Frere Hospital was resulting in around 200 stillborn babies every year - and that the corpses were being buried in mass paupers' graves. A tour of Mthatha General Hospital suggests conditions as grim: paint peels from rotten ceilings, the floors are filthy and in the casualty department, an old woman lies slumped in her wheelchair in a lake of urine...
Benedict's decision in 2007 to allow wider access to the traditional Tridentine Mass - said in Latin with the priest facing the altar rather than his flock - means that liturgical disputes with the Lefebvre followers have basically been resolved. "What remain are doctrinal questions that can only be clarified through further patient dialogue," Levada says...