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...dream of being a research scientist. But several years ago, I spent a summer working in a lab where I spent the whole day crushing mouse food and then running mice in mazes before they were killed for further study. Besides building nice forearms from my constant grinding with mortar and pestle, the summer taught me a lot: mice do not make wonderful conversationalists, and whatever else you do as a scientist, do not name your mice. It is a lot harder to watch Freddie die for an experiment than an anonymous mouse. After that experience, I felt...
This week saw increased military action in Israel and the West Bank. Palestinians fired a mortar attack onto disputed land within the borders of Jerusalem. Israeli military forces, meanwhile, positioned troops and tanks around West Bank hot spots, and an Apache helicopter fired a missile into a Bethlehem house, killing four and wounding more. Thursday the foreign ministers of the G8 countries, including U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, issued a statement backing the deployment of outside monitors in the region...
Looking at the different forms of bricks and mortar is also important. The size, color, texture and patterns of brick vary from building to building—and of course the color, amount and “relief” of the mortar can make all the difference. Most of the brick in the Yard, and the mortar, works quite well. Looking at a wall in “raking” sunlight is particularly revealing and often beautiful. After a while, you want to look at some of the brick over and over again—and you want...
...position and that event, like so many others, must have acted like a wedge between the human being behind that gaunt physique and the dull academic manager. But at least it helps to explain how Neil got to be the way he is: remote, inaccessible, and uninterested in the mortar that holds the ancient institutional bricks of this place together...
Renewed violence in the Middle East has consumed the state of Israel in the last year, drowning the once-promising peace process in a hail of bullets and mortar attacks...