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...lobbying, Iran has pledged $100 million in aid to the Hamas-led government, crippled by a five-month economic blockade imposed by Israel and others in the international community. In the past, Israel showed little hesitation in hitting Hamas militants inside Syria with air strikes, and the buzzing of Assad's Latakia palace shows the Israeli military might be prepared to do so again. Mashaal has gone into hiding, Hamas sources say, but is still believed to be in Damascus...
When Israeli F-16 fighter jets shrieked low over the summer palace of Syrian President Bashar Assad last Wednesday morning, the message was clear: Stop sheltering Khaled Mashaal, the exiled leader of Hamas who is No. 1 on Israel's hit list. "He is definitely in our sights," says Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon. "He is a target...
...There are neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex whose activity represents or encodes the value that subjects assign to the available goods when they make choices,” said Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, an HMS research fellow who authored the study along with Associate Professor of Neurobiology John Assad. According to Padoa-Schioppa, although scientists already knew that decision-making occurred in the OFC because damage in the area resulted in choice deficiencies such as eating disorders and excessive gambling, the new study pinpointed specific neurons involved in the process. “Our work can potentially be applied to rational...
RECUPERATING. CHARLIE ROSE, 64, anchor of PBS's highly acclaimed Charlie Rose show; after heart surgery to repair a valve; in Paris. Rose, who had felt short of breath while in Syria to interview President Bashar Assad, hopes to be back on air in several weeks...
Syriana is one of three new films, all meaty and intelligent, told in part from the view of a suicide bomber. Hany Abu-Assad's gnarly, poignant Paradise Now is set on the West Bank; Joseph Castelo's knockout nail biter The War Within takes place in New York City. But both have the monomania of an Islamic jihadist and the momentum of a Hitchcock movie about a bomb on a bus. Their simple narratives are the fuse that inexorably leads to the big blast. Syriana also ends with an explosion, but its journey there is through a labyrinth...