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...Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, a three-year-old program in "computational journalism" helps computer-science majors study how journalists gather, organize and utilize information, then take these workflows and see how technology can make the processes easier. Says Professor Irfan Essa: "We're trying to get people aware of what computations and software programs can do for their day-to-day work. This kind of thinking has enabled technology to streamline workflows in dozens of other industries. There's no reason it can't work in journalism...
...mention a determination to proceed with economic development in spite of the region's political instability. Borse Dubai originally got into a bidding war with NASDAQ over OMX. But when an intermediary suggested that they form a partnership instead, Borse Dubai quickly agreed. According to Borse Dubai chief Essa Kazim, the new arrangement gives Dubai access to even more expertise and global investors than it would have received in a partnership with OMX alone. "We felt we can complement each other," Kazim says. "NASDAQ can continue to expand in Europe. We needed a brand and technology to facilitate the attraction...
...Gohari family reunions take place in the Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery at the edge of the dusty Veramin plain on the outskirts of Tehran. Hussein Gohari, 14, squats next to the graves where his father Essa and his brothers Hassan and Ali lie, all killed in the conflict with Iraq. His mother, like many of the other widows at the cemetery, carefully washes her husband's gravestone, then sits with one hand on it in prayer. "We come every Friday," says Hussein. Soon his mother may be left alone to tend the graves. Hussein is ready, eager even, to join...
...stop gathering conspicuously in public. Sober-minded Kuwaitis insist that their boogie-loving brethren, featured prominently in the Western media, make up only a tiny minority of their countrymen. "A lot of the criticism is bitter and not deserved just because there are a few crazy people," says Adeeb Essa, spokesman for the Association for Free Kuwait in London...
Many engineers argue that because quakes are here to stay, the best approach is not predicting them but erecting sound buildings, bridges and dams on relatively safe sites. "It's not earthquakes that kill people," says Don Tocher of the new ESSA lab, "it's the buildings that people build that kill people." But seismologists point out that high costs have discouraged the construction of better buildings...