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...Hadassah, Jews save Arabs and Arabs save Jews. Though the hospital treats and employs mostly Jewish Israelis, Ratrout is one of 10 Palestinian doctors who work at Hadassah's two facilities, one in the Ein Kerem neighborhood (Ratrout's branch) and the other on Mount Scopus. What's more, about 10% of the staff are Arab residents of Israel, and Arab patients and their visitors can be seen in the halls. Though Hadassah Ein Kerem has handled more victims of terrorist attacks than any other Israeli hospital, it stands as a model of integration in the conflict between Israelis...
...others ranging from Arafat and Barghouti to the leaders of Hamas are likely to be guided more by the sentiment of the Palestinian street. That's a double-edged sword. If Hamas's terror attacks are perceived to be imperiling Palestinians' chances of resuming their working lives, pressure will mount on the organization to suspend such attacks. At the same time, however, the flurry of diplomatic talks have thus far had little impact on the lives of ordinary Palestinians struggling under the chokehold of military occupation while settlements and Sharon's "security fence" encroach on more and more of their...
...easily confused with other ailments. Some patients?particularly elderly ones, who often suffer a host of maladies?can go undetected. Toronto shows the damage that can be done with a single slipup. "It really tells you how unforgiving this disease is," says Dr. Allison McGeer, a microbiologist who heads Mount Sinai Hospital's infection-control department in Toronto...
...Amount officials are offering each household to move from the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, Italy's deadliest volcano...
...move comes at a critical time.? Attacks on U.S. soldiers continue to mount, and frustration remains high at the widespread joblessness and disorder? that have plagued the first two months of post-Saddam Iraq. In recent weeks, hundreds of jobless members of the military have staged noisy protests outside U.S. headquarters in central Baghdad, threatening to take up the arms they never gave up if the U.S. doesn't meet their demands for new jobs...