Word: stranded
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Perhaps the man who best exemplified this strand of Israeli culture during my trip was a Brooklyn-born man named Mike Ginsberg. Ginsberg had come to Israel just before the Yom Kippur War in 1973. He served in the army and eventually settled at Kibbutz Misguv Am, on the Lebanese border...
However, researchers cautioned against labeling this strand of DNA "the alcoholism gene." The gene's absence from more than 20% of the alcoholics studied suggests that additional factors are involved. Other genes, as well as an individual's upbringing and surroundings, are likely to play an important part. As evidence for an environmental influence on alcohol abuse, researchers point to the significantly higher incidence of alcoholism in men than in women, as well as the rarity of the condition in certain religious groups that discourage drinking, notably the Amish and the Mormons. Researchers also feel that last week's results...
...rebel; one lewd strand of hair snakes down to his cheek. He's an orphan; his parents, the notorious Alphabet Bomber (Airport, Barber shop, Car wash, Drug store . . .) and spouse, were electrocuted together long before he turned teen. He's Wade Walker, and when the world that has branded him a juvenile delinquent weighs too heavily on his high school hellcat soul, his eye moistens with a single salty tear. So the kids call him Cry-Baby. Says Wade defiantly: "That's Mr. Baby...