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...just at UCLA. At Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, dogs have been incorporated into rehabilitation treatments for victims of brain and spinal-cord injuries. At the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Sandra Barker brings her own Lhasa apso to relax shock-therapy patients who are visibly trembling before treatment. In Texas, dogs are used to motivate children recovering in burn units and to calm residents in Alzheimer's wards...
...signed a joint declaration calling for the resumption of peace talks. GREECE A Myth Finds Substance in the Hills The search for the Golden Fleece is one of the most evocative of Greek myths. Now archaeologists believe it may be more than just a legend. In the foothills of Mount Pelion, 170 km northwest of Athens, excavations have revealed remains of a Mycenean palace and city, a trading center for the mythical Jason and the Argonauts, who could have been gold traders sailing the Aegean and Black Sea. NIGERIA Crime Wave The streets of Lagos have become a battleground...
...Bush seemed equally confident and brushed aside warnings that last week's victories would be a distant memory come fall, when Senate Democrats mount their counterattack. But then anyone who takes so much pleasure in the hot wallow of his vacation destination must have thick skin. Bush's 1,600-acre ranch in central Texas is dusty, dry and a world away from his father's preppy enclave in Kennebunkport, Me. "The national media will hate it," Bush gleefully told Republican Senators, "but I'm going where it's 98 degrees average temperature, day and night." His Crawford obsession...
...Sydney Kai Inis, photo stylist and events planner set up a spot for merchandising found objects and her own redesigned and reinterpreted artifacts and objects of art. As a shop and gallery, she aims to mount a show or original fine art every three months with no piece priced over $600. Clemenza Hawkins exhibits a Harlem themed show through Summer...
...Mitchell Report. The U.S. endorsed the Palestinian proposal three weeks ago - but only on the condition that both sides accept such observers. The Israelis immediately ruled out the possibility, but the issue remains on the diplomatic chessboard. Renewed clashes, such as Sunday's fracas on the Temple Mount, would certainly keep diplomatic pressure alive on the observer issue, particularly because the fate of Jerusalem's holy sites is a pan-Arab concern. Clashes in Jerusalem inflame anger on the streets of Arab capitals, whose regimes are then compelled, in the interests of domestic stability, to press Washington to do more...