Word: nabi
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Good Friday Purim, a Jewish festival celebrating the biblical book of Esther Narouz, the Persian New Year, which is observed with Islamic elaboration in Iran and all the "stan" countries, as well as by Zoroastrians and Baha'is. Eid Milad an Nabi, the Birth of the Prophet, which is celebrated by some but not all Sunni Muslims and, though officially beginning on Thursday, is often marked on Friday. Small Holi, Hindu, an Indian festival of bonfires, to be followed on Saturday by Holi, a kind of Mardi Gras. Magha Puja, a celebration of the Buddha's first group of followers...
...huge market for it,” she said of the vaccine. All participants, who must be aged 18 or over, have already been selected for MGH’s yearlong study. The National Institute on Drug Abuse is coordinating the clinical trials, which are sponsored by Nabi Biopharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of the vaccine. Gharib said that she was unsure how a nicotine vaccine would affect college-age adults or teenagers. She said that younger people may be less interested in the vaccine because they tend to be more risk-prone than older adults...
...basis of expected earnings this year, the 25 largest companies in the S&P 500 are cheaper than any other broad section of the market, says Stan Nabi, chief investment strategist at Silvercreek Asset Management: "They now have far more potential than risk." One of Nabi's favorites is Home Depot, whose profits have been soaring and should grow an additional 14% this year. Yet the company's shares sit 39% below their level of six years ago. Other depressed blue chips include Intel, Dell, J.P. Morgan, Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, Verizon, Citigroup...
...patchwork parliament. Its share of parliamentary seats may even grow if the Syrians depart, since Hizballah advocates have long believed the Syrians actually cheated Nasrallah's movement out of a few seats in order to bolster the parliamentary presence of its own Shiite favorite, the Amal movement of Nabi Berri, the speaker of parliament...
Edouard Vuillard and Paul Gauguin are an odd couple: one famous for his depictions of drawn-curtain bourgeois interiors, the other for bare-breasted Polynesian reveries. But the link between them is direct. In 1889, Vuillard joined a band of fellow art students who called themselves Les Nabis - "prophets" in Hebrew and Arabic. Their credo was "the simplification of form and the exaltation of color," and their guru was Gauguin. Now, the two artists are sharing the same roof, in a superb pair of exhibits at the Grand Palais that round off a blockbuster fall art season in Paris...