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...printing-company executive. All the money that has been invested in Bio-Medical has gone to developing the thermometer and other possible products. Weinstein figures that the time-temperature dots may also be used to indicate spoilage in packaged foods. For Weinstein, who lives quietly with his wife in Sparta, N.J., the venture has already paid nicely. He owns 21% of the company's stock, and his holdings have a paper value of $13.3 million...
...continuous sifting of East German talents that begins in some parts of the country at preschool age. In elementary school, sports rank in importance with the three Rs; four hours' participation a week is compulsory. Most schoolchildren from the age of six to 18 also participate in the Sparta-ciades, a series of sports contests on local, regional and national levels that culminates in a kind of domestic Olympic Games every two years...
...fact, a misleading impression), is a fitting metaphor for the compromise which Israel attempts to make between life-styles of war and peace: to live like the city-state of Athens, culturally, economically, open and expanding, but to be prepared at all times to become a fortress-state, a Sparta, and to fight to the end. The ubiquity of soldiers is understandable in light of the fact that every Israeli male, eighteen years of age (almost without exception) must serve in the armed forces for three years, after which, until he is fifty-four, he will serve up to eight...
...arts of war." Many would no doubt call into question the value of a life whose security can be ensured only be deaths upon deaths. There are moments when such seems to be the situation in Israel: moments when it seems that it must resign itself to being Sparta, a nation of warriors, and abandon the Athenian style. The dilemma is a particularly difficult one for the Israelis because their image and identity which is now evolving is, in a sense, both the fulfillment and contradiction of their historic traditions...
...tribute. "We have always been a people that resides alone, and we can only rely on ourselves and world Jewry," he said. "Our closest neighbors are our bitterest enemies, refusing to accept our existence." But Israel, he went on, "was never intended to become a Hebrew Sparta. Our strength will not be determined solely by our military power and economic wealth, but by the special content of our lives and our capacity to cling to our unique heritage...