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Enter the Toyota Prius, a revolutionary gas-electric hybrid car, which is causing a flurry of excitement in California. The bubble-shaped auto is a favorite among Silicon Valley execs who hanker after the newest technology, retirees who value its great gas mileage and green-minded folks who champion its super-low emissions. Since last August, San Francisco Toyota has received orders for 200 of the $21,000 vehicles, and dozens of customers are on a three-month waiting list...
...also get a taste of the new medicine. The same companies are helping providers launch their own so-called physician portals, which allow patients to make appointments, send secure e-mail to doctors and view their own charts and lab results. As part of a pilot project in Silicon Valley, insurers for a group of companies, including Oracle and Cisco, will soon reimburse doctors for certain e-mail consultations. At the end of the trail, WebMD's goal of online, real-time insurance-eligibility checks and claims adjudication is very slowly starting to become a reality...
...West Bank and Gaza Strip and to expand their brand of Islamic revolution to the gates of Jerusalem, Islam's third holiest city. They aren't keen to share the spotlight with Hamas. In the past few months, Hezbollah canceled the training of Hamas operatives in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley and in Iran. Hezbollah is still training Palestinians, but when it sends them back to the Gaza Strip or West Bank, they'll be working for Hezbollah, not Hamas. A source in the Hamas military wing, Izzedine al-Qassam, tells TIME that Hezbollah has recruited several activists from Hamas...
...they're shortsighted, say the experts on play. Alvin Rosenfeld, co-author of The Over-Scheduled Child: Avoiding the Hyper-Parenting Trap, holds an old-fashioned view of play: it's joyful and emotionally nourishing. Stuart Brown, a retired psychiatrist and founder of the Institute for Play in Carmel Valley, Calif., believes that too little play may have a dark side. What Brown calls "play deprivation" can lead, he says, to depression, hostility and the loss of "the things that make us human beings...
...could cause anyone, not just a religious rebel with a price on his head, to consider his mortality. The ground falls off sharply, dotted with stands of pine and, yes, silvery green olive trees. Jesus--or his donkey--would have picked his way from here down into the Kidron Valley. On the other side, then as now, a great tan wall--the grandiose platform for a place of worship--would have reared up before him. He would have passed through what was known as the Beautiful Gate and entered Jerusalem...