"Last year, United Hatzalah (Hebrew for 'rescue') treated 207, 000 people -- more than 42, 000 of them in life-threatening conditions, " says Beer.

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Wolfowitz taught himself Arabic in the nineteen-eighties, when he was working at the State Department. (He also speaks French, German, Hebrew, and Indonesian.) Last year, during a visit to a mosque in eastern China, he recited a prayer from the Koran in Arabic.

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