Two plump, dark-haired women sit in the sun-splashed earth outside a large kitchen near Petah Tikva, a suburb of Tel Av iv. They are the kitchen help on a peanut farm.
Most of the morning they pick tiny black stones out of huge cotton sacks of rice, the dietary staple. The women have done this for [...]

The walls of my house are built with three-by-six boards instead of the usual two-by-fours. Sturdy and stout, these walls have listened to my children’s prayers. Armchair mystic that I am, I believe the prayers of my children have become ensconced in the corners and crevices of their rooms and have made our home sacred [...]

An electrical short (nickname for short circuit) can cause blown fuses, tripped circuit breakers, even fires. A short occurs when a bare!i hot wire touches a grounded wire or metal, or sometimes when water gets into electrical equipment. Shorts occur in wiring or in appliances. Overloaded circuits blow fuses. Try to determine the cause. The [...]