India In Talks With Israel, Turkey For Oil & Gas P/L.
Senior Indian officials met their Turkish and Israeli counterparts in Ankara recently to work out the technical details of an offshore pipeline project to bring Central Asian and Russian crude oil and LNG to India. The project, essentially a multi-purpose JV connecting Turkey and Israel through the Mediterranean, has...

Against the grains.
Low-carbohydrate and Mediterranean diets outperform low-fat regimen in two-year trial [GRAPHIC OMITTED] Carbohydrates have taken another hit. A new study finds that a low-carb diet results in greater weight loss and better cholesterol readings than a low-fat regimen that promotes a lot of grains and...

ARAB EUROPEAN RELATIONS - July 14 - Sarkozy Helps To Bring Syria Out Of Isolation.
Leaders of 43 nations with nearly 800 million inhabitants inaugurated a "Union for the Mediterranean" meant to bring the northern and southern countries that ring the sea closer together through practical projects dealing with the environment, climate, transportation, immigration and policing. But the meeting was also an opportunity for...

LEBANON - July 9 - Siniora Declares 'A Lot Of Progress' In Formation Of Unity Government.
Premier Fouad Siniora says that he hoped a new cabinet would be formed before President Michel Sleiman leaves the country on July 12 to participate in the Mediterranean Union summit in France. Siniora said after meeting Sleiman at the Presidential Palace that progress was being made toward the creation...

Social identity, boundary breaking, and ritual: Saul's recruitment on the road to Damascus.
Abstract Within the context of collectivist cultures, moving from one group to another, or changing identities, is an arduous and sometimes violent task. Saul's move from zealous Judean to follower of Jesus is depicted as a violent time of separation and aggregation. In this study, I use...

Nazareth's rebellious son: deviance and downward mobility in the Galilean Jesus movement.
Abstract Using social-scientific criticism, I imagine that Jesus' family and village eiders labeled him a "rebellious son" because his kingdom of God agenda threatened their domestic economy and the patriarchal power relations that sustained it. Consequently, Jesus left Nazareth and initiated a movement among Galilean fishing villages...

Forgotten Voices of the Second World War.
Forgotten Voices of the Second World War. Max Arthur. Ebury Press. [pounds sterling]12.99. 160 pages. ISBN 978-0-09-191774-6. This volume is a sequel to the author's Forgotten Voices of the Great War and is based on the sound recordings and archival records of the Imperial War Museum. It concentrates on...

Charles Dickens abroad: the Victorian Smelfungus and the genre of the unsentimental journey.
While Shakespeare wrote extensively about Italy without ever visiting the country--which accounts for the fact that in The Taming of the Shrew he places Padua in Lombardy (I, i, 3)--Dickens's descriptions of Italy draw on his own traveling experience. In 1844, he paid a long visit to Italy, which...

Labor market duality and leisure industries in Spain: quality of life versus standard of living.
I Introduction IN THIS ARTICLE, we suggest that many of the contemporary patterns in the labor market that have arisen in connection with the organization of production under the current "flexible" capitalist model--which is characterized by the casualization of employment in the form of low...

Pope: Save the earth for the future.
Addressing some 150,000 young Catholic pilgrims in Sydney, the Pope said some had come from island homes whose very existence was threatened by rising sea levels and others from drought-hit nations such as Australia. The Pontiff told the World Youth Day gathering on the shores of Sydney...