Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contrast to most other industrialized 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...
Because he is their father's favorite son, ominous circumstances (the attempted fratricide by his brothers) surround Joseph; his brothers, still driven by jealousy, end up selling him as a slave to a rich Egyptian. A further mixture of tragi-comic events culminate in Joseph's condemnation to a jail cell. From there, the story spirals into an exciting spin and eventually Joseph finds himself in the Pharaoh's service...
...Egyptian, Israeli and Western intelligence sources report that Iran has already helped establish a new terrorist refuge and base of operations in the African nation of Sudan, which has been taken over by another fundamentalist Islamic regime. Tehran is known to have dispatched thousands of its Revolutionary Guards there, and they are said to be conducting instruction in the arts of bombing and bloodshed for members of several extremist organizations at new training camps around Khartoum...
...Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak reportedly has warned Sudanese officials that they are risking a military clash with Egypt by allowing the camps to operate, and the U.S. is considering adding Sudan to its list of countries that sponsor terrorism, but none of that so far appears to have had much effect. Many terrorist organizations and their sponsors seem for the moment to be lying low. But just as the devil in Christian theology is supposed to be most effective when people no longer believe in him, terrorists may be most dangerous precisely if -- and because -- the civilized world begins...
...after Egyptian President Anwar Sadat made his extraordinary decision to go to Jerusalem in 1977, Begin found it a gesture so bold and imaginative that he signed a peace treaty with Egypt. In exchange for normal relations, Israel pledged to return the Sinai peninsula to Egypt and to participate in negotiations to determine the final status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It was a daring gamble that would ensure both men a place in history and a share of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978. But by the time Begin died last week...