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...files, according to the government report. And no one is even sure that a lease was actually given. "There is no new lease on any of the Omar Ibn al-Khattab Square properties," says one Patriarchate official. Israeli property deals in Palestinian neighborhoods are often kept secret to avoid Arab protests and retribution against locals who sell to Jews. Nevertheless, Palestinian Orthodox Christians have seized on the scandal to push for greater representation in the Patriarchate's hierarchy. There are some 120,000 Greek Orthodox Palestinians, the largest Christian group in the Holy Land, but only...
...avoid passing on an unhealthy obsession, it's wise to deal with weight and eating as health issues rather than moral ones, counsels Phyllis Cohen, a co-author of You Have to Say I'm Pretty, You're My Mother. And it's better to talk about bodies in terms of their strength and abilities rather than their appearance. If you're upset about gaining weight, Cohen urges, don't turn your anger inward. Self-loathing, most experts agree, is the root cause of eating disorders...
What both men were trying to avoid was a vote, engineered by Frist and set for this week, that would change Senate procedures to make it impossible for Democrats to continue blocking Bush's judicial appointments by talking them to death. The Democrats have been winning by filibuster--which requires 60 votes to overcome--what they cannot accomplish on a simple up-or-down vote, since Republicans have 55 Senate seats to their 44. Neutralizing the filibuster may sound like little more than a bit of parliamentary housekeeping, but, given the tactic's long tradition in the Senate, Mississippi Senator...
Hwang also takes care to avoid off-putting words such as cloning or therapeutic cloning, preferring instead to call his process nuclear transfer. He doesn't want anyone to confuse his work with reproductive cloning, which he deems "unsafe and unethical." He thinks cloning fully grown humans may be biologically impossible, given the many miscarriages and genetic anomalies that have bedeviled attempts to clone animals, and he doesn't like giving people the impression that therapies or treatment will be available anytime soon...
...against the junta, citing the government's suppression of the country's democratic opposition. And with Burma set to chair the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) next year, its neighbors are trying to persuade the country's military dictators to "voluntarily" give up their turn, so as to avoid the embarrassing prospect of the U.S. and E.U. boycotting the forum's meetings. On that, at least, Rangoon appears to be listening: Sihasak Phuangketkeow, Thailand's Foreign Ministry spokesman, told TIME the generals had agreed to "bear in mind the larger interests of ASEAN." But that's unlikely to include...