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...this manner for several weeks when a phone rang in my dark, airless, and bitterly cold cubicle one day in the first week of January. Overwhelmed as it was by the whistle of the arctic gale forcing its way through fist-size holes in the plastic wrap covering my window, the sound of the ringer at first hardly reached me through the pile of soiled rags into which I had burrowed for warmth...
Also in Hebron, demonstrators smashed the window of an Israeli passenger bus, but no one was hurt, Israel radio said...
...York and the family's place near Oakland (where he largely spends the seven-month off-season and from where two sons have sprung to Harvard and Brown), Madden feels especially at home on the road. "America is my home," he likes to say. "I look out my window, and I see Wyoming and Nebraska, and the sycamores of Indiana, and the Hudson River. That's my front yard." Like a John Steinbeck traveling without his dog Charley, Madden is turning his journey into the third (and probably last) book. "I enjoy writing them a lot more than reading them...
...Flanagan follows the twists and turns from Kilpeder and Dublin to London and New York City. His settings, from Ardmor Castle to the local pub, are natural and unforced; the language of his characters hints at hidden poetry without breaking into showy lyricism or stage Irish: "Beyond the streaky window, the land opened out before us -- the wide, green fields of the midlands, the hills of Munster, a flashing glimpse of ruined keep, a manor house half hidden by plantation, the battered, roofless nave of a lost friary or monastery...
...readily pay around $400 for a sun-box, a device containing several fluorescent light tubes that emit the full spectrum of natural light at five to ten times the intensity of indoor lighting. Says Hellekson: "The light you get is about equivalent to standing one inch away from a window on a sunny spring day." Because light seems to affect the body through the eyes and not the skin, tanning therapy doesn't work, Rosenthal points out. Some patients spend from 30 minutes to five hours daily soaking up the sun-box rays. For Dalene Barry, 44, of Washington...