Word: midwest
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...Lubavitchers live. The pseudonymous central figure of Harris' book is Housewife "Sheina Konigsberg," not a born-and-bred Hasid but a baalat teshuvah (female "returnee"). Financially comfortable and reared in a Jewish family that was only moderately observant, Sheina joined a supportive community of Lubavitchers in the Midwest after a divorce from her first husband. To the dismay of her children, Sheina subsequently entered an arranged marriage and moved to Brooklyn with Husband "Moshe," a widower with deep Lubavitcher roots...
...addition to People Express, many other new entries have had impressive takeoffs. New York Air is growing rapidly along the East Coast, Muse Air is doing well from its Houston base, and Jet America is carving out a niche with flights between California and the Midwest. Many others, though, have failed. After expanding too swiftly, Air Florida filed for bankruptcy in 1984 and then merged with Chicago's Midway Airlines. The casualties of competitive battles in the past two years have also included Louisiana-based Pride Air, Pacific Express of California and Northeastern International, all of which suspended flights...
...schools, a boarding academy and a seminary. Raised in a German-speaking home, he entered Yale Divinity School in 1913 still struggling to master English. When he joined the faculty of New York City's Union Theological Seminary in 1928, the Old Guard grumbled because this novice with the Midwest twang had no doctorate. He raised eyebrows when he wore a rumpled suit to a tuxedos-only reception and poured hollandaise over his entire artichoke instead of dipping the leaves into the sauce...
Taking a decidedly untraditional route, many teenagers are pursuing an opportunity more akin to the Peace Corps than camp. Gordy Kaplan, executive director of the Midwest Association of Independent Camps, says community-service camps are the hottest development in the field. Particularly popular, other experts say, are those programs in which participants travel to remote parts of the U.S. and to foreign countries to help local populations. Last summer Ryan McNeill, 16, of Lake Forest, Ill., went to Costa Rica with the Road Less Traveled. At a cost of $3,995 for 22 days, McNeill and his group stayed...
...involved in politics." For most of the past decade, the outspoken Baptist minister from Texas has used his pulpit to help elect conservative judges and politicians. Along the way, his organization, Vision America, has recruited 3,000 to 4,000 "patriot pastors" in parts of the South and Midwest to help get out the evangelical-Christian vote...