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...nations, the U.S. has no central government ministry imposing lockstep conditions on an untidy educational conglomerate. That is why so many schools are attempting to seize the future in strikingly independent ways. Take computers, for instance. At the University of California, Los Angeles, Egyptian-born senior professor Maha Ashour-Abdalla is using the smart machines to teach physics to 140 students. The computers can simulate experiments, from sound waves being measured in a pool of water to a 3-D, multicolored representation of molecules colliding...
...Abdalla's course is part of a broader effort by UCLA administrators to perk up flagging student interest in the sciences. "We cannot afford to train everyone as a scientist," says Clarence Hall, dean of physical sciences. "But there are hardly any students to teach. Science and engineering are the engine of economic progress, and without some changes, we are bound to lose the fuel for that engine...
...Saudis offered the U.S. their million-barrel-a-day oil production bonus-or "Fourth of July present," as King Khalid described it at the time. Kuwait was brought in on the deal to make use of the abilities of its representative on the current U.N. Security Council, Ambassador Abdalla Yaccoub Bishara...
...against Uganda in the airport raid had promised one of the most stirring U.N. showdowns in years, and there was every sign that that promise would be fulfilled. The Council chamber was packed with diplomats, newsmen and spectators late last week when Uganda's Foreign Minister Juma Oris Abdalla rose to open the debate, which he did with a lengthy indictment of Jerusalem for "barbarism and banditry" coupled with a demand for full compensation for the damages Uganda suffered in the attack...
Israel's "obsession with fear" and "belief that the Arabs have no respect for international obligations" poses an insurmountable block to peace in the Middle East, Abdalla Bishara, Kuwait's ambassador to the United Nations, told 30 students at Dunster House last night...