Word: timelessly
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...1960s, this timeless cycle was broken. With construction of the Aswan High Dam, the largest and most ambitious barrier ever built across the river, the Nile's annual floods were brought under complete control. A 2,000-sq.-mi. reservoir was created, and, through the dam's turbines, enough hydroelectric power was produced to meet half of Egypt's electrical needs. Irrigating canals created a million acres of new farm land...
Tucked picturesquely into the western slopes of the Alps, the lakeside resort of Talloires, France, features three-star gastronomy and a timeless mountain calm. But the distinguished assembly that gathered there last week had no interest in sightseeing, and lost little time in shattering the Alpine quiet by speaking up loudly in defense of world press freedom...
...long centuries of exile, that it is more than anything else a geography of the soul, where the horizon is limitless. Despite its current troubles, Israel certainly has the ability - if only it can summon the will - to make that moral horizon, the Jewish people's timeless strength, the ruling priority once again...
...problems of the impending change, there are some Sinai dwellers who view it all with stoic detachment. They are the 32,000 local Bedouin nomads, many of whom have grown relatively rich from the job opportunities provided by the Israelis. Yet at least part of their timeless perspective remains. Says gray-bearded Khnebesh Rabiya, a local coffee vendor: "We don't care about Egypt or Israel. What we care about is whether our camels have enough...
...timeless images that defined Harvard basketball this season, Bok bounded out of his perch in the top row of the bleechers, ran out onto the court, and embraced Mannix...