Boston Scientific Receives FDA Approval for Complete Product Line of the NIROYAL(TM) Elite Monorail(TM) Coronary Stent System.
Company plans to launch product immediately NATICK, Mass., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announced today that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to market the full product line of the NIROYAL(TM) Elite Monorail(TM) Coronary Stent System. It...

A mountain of praise. (letters).
I must just write and congratulate you on the absolutely superb May issue of Geographical. I would not have believed that you could fill a whole magazine with stories about Everest, but it is absolutely fascinating reading and an issue with which I shall never part. G...

Pastor John Hagee Urges World Defense of Israel Now In New Book: 'Jerusalem Countdown -- A Prelude to War'.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. John C. Hagee, Pastor of the Cornerstone Church of San Antonio, Texas, and internationally-known expert on Middle Eastern religious affairs, has launched a new salvo in the defense of Israel with his most recent book, "Jerusalem Countdown -- a Prelude to War," (Strang...

It's not about peace.
Byline: The Register-Guard How much good can result from a decision to do the right thing for the wrong reasons? That's the burning question on everyone's mind with the Israeli pullout from Gaza just a few days away. No one minimizes the historic significance of...

Tabula imperi romanii: Iudaea-Palaestina, Eretz Israel in the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Periods.
By Y. TSAFRIR, L. DI SEGNI and J. GREEN with contributions by I. ROLL and Ts. TSUK. Publications of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Section of Humanities. Jerusalem: THE ISRAEL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES, 1994. Pp. x + 264. This work, together with its maps, forms...

Jerusalem's place in the Bible.
* * * The word Jerusalem (by this name alone) is expressly mentioned over eight hundred (800) times in the Holy Bible, besides it being mentioned under various other names. In the Holy Bible, the city of Jerusalem is known by other names - Zion, City of...

Jerusalem and the border, evolutive aspects.
Abstract. What meaning does the term border take on referring to a city? The city of Jerusalem is an interesting case study because with it the whole polysemy of the word border shows up, on every geographical scale. Since the start of the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000, support for...

Peres For Direct Talks.
At the annual Ambrosetti conference of political and business leaders in Cernobbio on the shores of Italy's Lake Como, which debated Middle East peace prospects, Israeli President Shimon Peres on Sept. 5 proposed that Syria and Israel hold direct talks in Jerusalem or Damascus. He extended an invitation to...

MIDEAST HOPES.
Will the Wye Peace Agreement Survive? JERUSALEM, Israel--They said it couldn't be done. But President Bill Clinton did it. He persuaded two world leaders who really don't like each other, and who represent peoples who have fought for centuries, to agree on steps toward peace. ...

Recent events in Middle East are promising signs of hope.
Byline: Harvey Fenigsohn COLUMN: AS I SEE IT Jews around the world gather this month at the dinner table to celebrate Passover. With family and friends, we observe a holiday celebrating the liberation of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery and our forebears' return to the...