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Moreover, dieters pay an exorbitant price in time, energy and self-esteem to attain and keep their ultra-slim figures. "Most people equate dieting with some kind of a masochistic ritual and cannot feel successful unless they are sacrificing all pleasure in eating," says Karen Miller-Kovach, director of nutrition services for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Except for extremely thin or extremely heavy people, Andersen flatly declares, "the emphasis should be off weight and on health...
When Naftuli Ringel arrived in the U.S. in 1907, the best available job was shohet -- ritual slaughterer. But the immigrant was too sensitive for throat cutting, and he chose to become a peddler. Assimilation works wonders in America; 84 years later, his grandson has developed an unerring instinct for the jugular vein...
Israel's Ethiopian community now numbers 36,000, and veterans have been employed by the government to ease the transition for newcomers. The little things can make all the difference. Because making coffee is part of the daily Ethiopian ritual, the arrivals are allowed to boil their own brew in their hotel rooms, where some may live for up to a year while taking language classes. Other problems are more insidious. The sudden switch to a high-fat and high-sugar diet is likely to increase the incidence of heart disease and cavities, which until now have been unusually rare...
...knights in armor joust on horseback. At the Arabian Nights, sheiks steal gossamer-clad princesses during dinner shows. Orange County's most famous golf course, the Grand Cypress resort, has reconstructed the layout of the hallowed Old Course at St. Andrews in Scotland. The Florida Peabody Hotel copies a ritual of the original Peabody in Memphis: every day at the appointed hour, mallard ducks waddle off the elevator to wade in the lobby's marble fountain...
Bill Graham is currently writing a book about Islam. "It's an interpretive essay on the Islamic tradition, focusing on issues of scripture, ritual, and tradition," Graham says...