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...responded to a young woman who wanted to be a combat pilot by asking, "Have you ever seen a man knitting socks?"-- he built and commanded the Israeli air force from 1958 to 1966 and the following year helped lead the military's rapid, pre-emptive victory in the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War. Later, as an ardent peace advocate, he met with Palestinians, vocally criticized hard-liners and through his rapport with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat helped cement that country's historic 1979 peace agreement with Israel...
...next time you're motoring through the United Arab Emirates, you might want to keep an eye on the speedometer. As part of a $125 million deal, IBM will next year start equipping tens of thousands of cars, commercial trucks and government autos with devices to alert drivers--and authorities--when vehicles are speeding. The technology, which includes a GPS and two-way communications link, is meant to stem the U.A.E.'s record of auto fatalities--38 a year per 100,000 citizens, which is more than twice that of the U.S. Privacy issues notwithstanding, with all that data government...
While all three speakers yesterday supported the Presbyterian Church’s decision to divest, Rami R. Sarafa ’07, president of the Society of Arab Students (SAS), said that “at this time, we and our co-sponsoring organizations are not promoting divestment but are promoting discussion and debate about it.” The International Relations Council, the Palestinian Solidarity Committee, and the Woodbridge Society of International Students joined SAS to co-sponsor the event along with several graduate school and alumni groups...
Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said professor of Arab studies at Columbia, is one of four candidates being considered for a position as chair in Contemporary Middle East Studies at Princeton...
...Down the Stretch In the Middle East, thousands of boys from South Asia toil as jockeys in camel races, and their lives are woeful. Following government-imposed bans on jockeys under 16 in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, at least 20 experimental robots will take over the reins this fall. Kamel, a Swiss-built, lightweight, remote-controlled jockey, uses gestures similar to those of a human jockey, even whipping. Price: $5,500 each...