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As it snakes its way through the Judean wilderness, the Kidron comes to Mar Saba, a spectacular monastery slung upon a cliff. Orthodox Christian prayers have been chanted there every day for some 1,400 years. The monastery and its domes and chapels are protected on one side by stone walls and on the other by the deep gorge of the Kidron, or Wadi Nar, as the Arabs call it. If you descend the innumerable steps to the fast-flowing Kidron Stream, a vile smell rises to meet you. The flow is raw sewage from Jerusalem, coursing at a rate of 8 to 10 million gallons a day. Over the last six years, an Israeli lawyer named Richard Laster -- a professor at Hebrew University -- has laid the foundation for a solution. Heading a team of Israeli and Palestinian officials and academics, Mr. Laster produced the Kidron Master Plan. The group proposes diverting the wastewater from the valley and constructing a sewage treatment plant in Ubeidiya. The plant would be paid for largely by international development agencies but jointly owned and operated by Israelis and Palestinians. The managers would sell the treated wastewater for local agricultural use, and Ubeidiya would get a modern landfill for its trash. While the environment healed, a new park and tourist trail would link Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Ubeidiya and the Mar Saba monastery. The Kidron would be, in Mr. Laster's words, \"a platform for peace.\"

Pepi Deutsch, the Hungarian Jew who fooled the Nazis into keeping her alive and then managed to get herself and her daughter through the horrors of slave labor, has died peacefully at age 101, one of the world's oldest survivors of the Holocaust. \"For me, the world has collapsed,\" her daughter, Clara Knopfler, of Scarsdale, said Saturday. \"It doesn't matter how old she was. I have had 70 years of uninterrupted support from my mother, and I don't know how I'm supposed to live without her.\" Deutsch died Friday at Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville, a day after being admitted with bladder cancer. The hardship Deutsch endured in her 40s-Auschwitz, slave labor, the death of 37 relatives including her husband, her son and her mother-left no apparent bitterness. In an interview last year, when she was honored by the Holocaust commission, she said she felt her family around her still, \"no matter if they're dead.\" Her hellish experiences hadn't sapped her zest for life.

Pepi Deutsch, the Hungarian Jew who fooled the Nazis into keeping her alive and then managed to get herself and her daughter through the horrors of slave labor, has died peacefully at age 101, one of the world's oldest survivors of the Holocaust. \"For me, the world has collapsed,\" her daughter, Clara Knopfler, said yesterday. \"It doesn't matter how old she was. I have had 70 years of uninterrupted support from my mother and I don't know how I'm supposed to live without her.\" Deutsch died Friday at Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville, a day after being admitted with bladder cancer.

Earlier this year [Richard Laster] failed to reverse regulations placing the nuclear research centers at Dimona and Nahal Sorek outside the Environment Ministry's jurisdiction. \"The ministry is responsible for all radioactive materials in the country such as those found in X-ray clinics and universities, but not those found at the nuclear research centers. This is absurd,\" said Laster.

In an unrelated announcement [Richard Laster] said DNAP is breathing new life into its Frostban product line, a genetically engineered bacteria originally used to prevent strawberry plants from freezing.

Fourteen tree trimmers from Long Island, N.Y., were filling themselves up at Mebane's Iron Skillet restaurant in the Petro truck stop on Buckhorn Road. \"We're going to conserve fuel,\" [Fred Ward] said as he filled up his sport utility vehicle at the Pilot in Graham, \"but we are going on with our trip.\" \"I truly believe there's some price gouging going on,\" Ward said. \"I'm getting a motorcycle, that's where I'm going right now,\" [Michael VanDyke] said as he got ready to fill up his pickup truck. \"It's the best mileage you can get.\" VanDyke said he had to cut back wherever he could because he drives an 18-wheel truck for a living.

Pepi Deutsch, a Hungarian Jew whose youthful appearance fooled the Nazis into keeping her alive, and who got herself and her daughter through the horrors of slave labor, has died at the age of 101.

Meanwhile, Deputy Dimona Mayor Albert Assaf seemed more concerned with other environmental issues than with the fact that the town is near a nuclear reactor. \"We trust the authorities 100 percent when it comes to safety regulations at the site. This is a small town, if there were special problems related to the research center you wouldn't be able to keep it quiet. The main environmental problems the city needs to discuss with [Yossi Sarid] are the sewage, dust storms and oxidation ponds,\" said Assaf.

Patrolman Richard Laster reported that a Nintendo game, a collection of baseball cards, 500 assorted sports cards, a large coin collection, nine pocket knives, money and checks were taken from the home of Katherine Frederick, 46, of 3149 Lucas Drive, sometime between 10:45 a.m. and 3:45 p.m.

The arrests came after Patrolman Henry Jonkman stopped a car for driving the wrong way on Center Street in Bethlehem near Elizabeth Avenue at 3:30 a.m. While the car's registration was being checked, Patrolman Richard Laster, the backup officer at the scene, noticed an open brown paper bag in the back seat full of small packets filled with a white powdery substance.