Guests can visit the nearby city of Haifa, a horse-riding farm, the Ein Hod artists' village and go hiking in the forest.

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In the current issue of the journal Nature, Hod Lipson from Cornell University describes robots in his lab with a limited ability to self-reproduce.

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According to Zohar Hod of SuperDerivatives, a derivatives-pricing firm, there has already been movement away from LIBOR towards using overnight index swaps to discount cash flows on certain instruments.

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