Word: zeev
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...less than 20% of children in parts of the U.S. are given a sedative--a calming drug that is distinct from anesthesia--before surgery, in contrast to 75% of adults. The push to change the way youngsters are prepped got a big boost this spring when Dr. Zeev Kain of Yale reported that in the first week after an operation, children given the liquid form of midazolam (the most commonly used preoperative sedative) experience 25% to 50% fewer nightmares and other disturbances than those given a placebo...
Today, Israelis will go to the ballot box to elect a new prime minister. There are now only two contenders for the premiership: Likud leader and incumbent Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu and Labor Party Chief Ehud Barak. Three other candidates, Centrist Yitzchak Mordechai, Israeli-Arab leader Azmi Bishara and hawk Zeev "Benny" Begin bowed out of the race in the 11th hour...
...draw. The A-team, seeded No. 6, was composed of the top five players for the Crimson--Deepak Abraham, Wyant, Eric Lauer, Andrew Merrill, and Pete Collin--while the B-team was made up of the next five players--Grayson Witcher, co-captain Dave Beitchmann, Shondip Ghosh, Zeev Ben Shachar and Dave Barry...
...this spirit that I visited an Israeli healer. Suffering from a persistent tickling in my right ear that had me convinced that some rain- forest bug had set up household in my head, I decided to see "bioenergist" Zeev Kolman. A kindly man, Kolman first studied my "aura," looking for perturbations, and then set to work by simply moving his hands in the air over my body. After a few seconds I began to feel a current crackling between his hands and my skin, and a pleasant tickling in the bothersome ear. At one point, I felt a whooshing sensation...
...script is modeled on the stunning Israeli success in the Six-Day War of 1967. But 23 years later, technology is vastly different, and the Iraqis are much better armed, trained and led than the Egyptians were then. "You don't win a war only with air strikes," says Zeev Eytan at the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies in Tel Aviv. Administration estimates of American casualties in a quick-hit war run to 5,000 to 10,000 dead, about half the Pentagon estimate for a more or less conventional war but still frighteningly high...