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Can a person do for others at the same time that he does for himself? Here is one entrepreneurial davener’s story. The Sunday morning service was

William Shatner has just gotten off the phone with a NASA astronaut at the International Space Station. “Think of it,” he says. “Gregory Chamitoff, Ph.D.

The popular In Treatment was one of the first, but there are a number of American adaptations of Israeli shows on the way. The walls are thin

The Sudanese security officer fingered my American passport and asked where my family was from. “America,” I said. He smiled, and then pressed further: “Where