Word: pilgrimate
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...pilgrim will no longer have to make the 2 1/2-hour climb from the monastery, on the steep steps carved in rock by Byzantine monks who began the task in the 6th century. Unless better angels intervene, there is to be a cable car to whisk the pilgrim up the volcanic rock. At the upper terminus, according to one plan, he will find a restaurant, a casino (which in Egypt is not a gambling house but a nonalcoholic nightclub) and probably an asphalt walkway lighted at night to take the visitor to where Moses...
...Thanksgiving represents more than a litany of good tidings and an amalgam of turkey-time truisms. There is a stubborn rectitude to the holiday itself, reminiscent of its stiff-necked Pilgrim forbearers. More than any other date on the calendar, Thanksgiving has remained private and personal, devoid of the tinsel trappings that mar the rest of contemporary life. On this ecumenical holiday, Americans are allowed to be as prayerful or as secular as they choose, with no one complaining that they have somehow taken the thanks out of Thanksgiving...
...gastronomical theory can explain the enduring appeal of the Thanksgiving dinner. The traditional menu is largely a 19th-century re-creation of Pilgrim and Indian fare, and none of these groups normally claim membership in the world's great culinary traditions. But miraculously the meal remains a monument to pre-microwave American cooking. Not even McDonald's has had the audacity to create McTurkey, nor does Domino's deliver cranberry pizza. So too are the food faddists outflanked, as sun-dried tomatoes, imported chevre and oat-bran anything give way to overstuffed lassitude...
...bombings, which killed one Pakistani pilgrim, may also have had an Iranian connection. Saudi television broadcast what it said was the confession of the ringleader, Mansour Hassan Abdullah Mehmeid, 32. He and some of his accomplices had received Iranian training, said Mehmeid, and "collected the explosives from the back door of the Iranian embassy in Kuwait...
...hope is that if [bulimics] diet, if they lose the weight, their problems will be solved," Pilgrim said...