Word: steeled
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Leah Hochbaum giggles a lot for a radical fanatic. But the 26-year-old mother of two from New York City possesses a will of steel and a boundless faith that she is obeying God's commandment. When she heard Manhattan Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach say it was a Jew's duty to reclaim all the land of biblical Israel, she believed, and she came, not just to the Holy Land but to the very heart of the struggle, to the West Bank city of Hebron. After a year in the confines of the Avraham Avinu quarter, one of six minuscule...
From the capital of Doha, a glass-and-steel city whose residents once survived on pearl fishing, Hamad has scheduled municipal elections and loosened restrictions on the press, near revolutionary moves in the ultrapatriarchal gulf. He has angered neighbors by receiving a minister from Iraq and a minister plus a battleship from Iran--every other sheik's two worst enemies. He has also tried to outdo them in pleasing the U.S., offering the Pentagon a base on his soil and, until Benjamin Netanyahu came to power, moving faster to normalize relations with Israel...
Stuber, whose father was a steel-worker and fire fighter, worked his way through college as a scholarship student. And in keeping with his background, he focuses on education, including funding for Head Start and Pell grants. He also supports Americorps, President Clinton's national-service program, and advocates a penny-a-pound tax on sugar to fund the cleanup of the Everglades...
Bilirakis grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he passed up college scholarships to support his family by working in a steel mill. He attended college under the G.I. Bill, and went on to earn a law degree from the University of Florida. The mixed themes of his biography seem to explain his moderate politics, and like many Florida Republicans, he will break with his party when it comes to the concerns of his elderly constituency...
...vote on Question One would also ban cruel, painful traps that catch an animal by gripping any part of it rather than by confining it whole, as a cage does. Most of the traps that would be banned are steel-jaw and rubber-jaw leghold traps, both of which crush the limbs of animals they catch. Leghold traps pose a serious danger to household pets as well as the animals trappers mean to catch. "For every target animal, there are two to three untargeted animals that are trapped," says Aaron Medlock, legislative policy analyst for the Humane Society...