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...well. His father taught Jewish history at Cornell University, and the Prime Minister graduated from MIT. His advisers say he has a weather eye for the mood in Washington and knows it is not as sunny as it used to be. Israeli officials have gauged that while Netanyahu can count on support from the Obama Administration and Congress, "it's no longer infinite," says an official at a pro-Israeli lobby in Washington. Obama is not George W. Bush, who backed Israel's wars in Lebanon and Gaza and rarely complained about the expansion of Jewish settlements in the West...
...blood in her brain - so no ability to form or retain memories - and for much of the time, she had no higher brain function. And yet according to records of what she said when she awoke, Pam was able to hear conversations about the surgery. She was able to count the number of people in the operating room and describe who was standing where. It suggests that her mind may have been operating when her brain was unable to make or retain memories. That's pretty provocative...
...terms of housing, we can take a page from the Chinese school system, which centralizes showers in a different building, and hot water is available only from 7-9am, 12-3, and 9-12. Heating in the winter, don't count on it - with SIX students PER ROOM, you'll be more likely than not have your windows open...
...could not be reached for comment yesterday. There are currently 63 FAS committees listed on the Secretary of the Faculty’s Web site—but most of those eliminated Wednesday are not even listed on the site. The Faculty Council also moved for one class to count for SAT/UNSAT for the General Education curriculum. This policy will still need to pass a Faculty vote to be implemented, and it will go before the full Faculty next Tuesday. The Council passed a significantly revised Handbook for Students, which includes the minimum SAT Subject Test score...
...Iraq hasn't changed the Obama Administration's plans to withdraw American troops from the country, it has certainly forced many Iraqi refugees to put off plans to return to the country. A series of bombings across Iraq in April killed more than 200, the highest monthly body count in roughly a year. Andrew Harper, head of the Iraq Support Unit created by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told TIME that the rate of refugee return slowed dramatically in April. And a "significant number" of returnees have turned around and fled the country again...