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...city fathers of Block Island, R.I., put the community back on daylight saving time. Students at Boston's New England School of Art devised a means of keeping their nude model warm when they turned the thermostat down to 65°: they put up a transparent plastic tent that is kept at a toasty 75° by the girl's body heat. Reporting on what he is doing to conserve energy, an eight-year-old Miami boy noted: "I walk to school every day. I don't watch much television. And I try not to take...
...withdraw from the checkpoints, and at the same time the prisoner-of-war exchange was to begin. Egypt also agreed, however, to let Israeli soldiers inspect supply trucks, even though the U.N. officially controlled the checkpoints. The details were worked out next day in the Kilometer 101 tent by Yariv and el Gamasi. This time the two generals smilingly shook hands and shared a bottle of whisky...
...signing took place on Sunday in an olive-drab army tent set up in the sand alongside the highway from Cairo to Suez. The point, known as Kilometer 101, marks the farthest Israeli advance into Egypt before shooting stopped on Oct. 25. Inside the tent, at a U-shaped table covered with gray military blankets, three delegations sat down. Finnish Major General Ensio Siilasvuo, 51, the ruddy-faced commander of the Emergency Force, represented the U.N. Major General Aharon Yariv, 53, Israel's former intelligence chief and an adviser to Golda Meir, represented Israel. Major General Mohamed Abdel Ghani...
...Palestinian refugee, living in a tent or shack under conditions rivaling those of Nazi camps and dependent upon the charity of other nations, the only home is Palestine, where he and his family have lived for centuries, a country Israel insists no longer exists...
Both religions have traditionally exerted a powerful, homogenizing influence on their followers. Jews may be blonds from Sweden or dark-skinned Yemenites, but they share an ethnic and often spiritual identity. Arabs may be tent-pitching Bedouins or Cairo businessmen, but many of them turn in prayer toward Mecca five times a day. Even in those countries that observe separation of church and state, religion plays a significant role in the life and attitudes of their societies...