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Brin, 32, has also been precocious all his life. Born into a Jewish family in Moscow, Brin fled Russia with his parents amid rising anti-Semitism in the late 1970s and settled in the U.S. Brin's father Michael teaches applied probability and statistics at the University of Maryland; his mother works at NASA. Brin from an early age was fascinated with numbers; his father gave him his first computer, a Commodore 64, when he turned 9. Brin's other love is gymnastics, and he studied flying trapeze at a circus school in San Francisco. He has lately taken...
...iconic image of last week was in the Gaza Strip. It was of a Palestinian gunman astride the local office of the European Union. All the diplomatic staff had fled, tipped off ahead of time. The source of the militant's ire? A series of satirical cartoons originally published in Denmark. Yes, cartoons...
...more financially secure he was, Coria says, the more overwhelmed he became by memories of his bitter past: the beatings he suffered as a boy working construction in Mexico City; the disapproval of his mother, who never seemed satisfied with the money he sent back every week. Coria fled the Hamptons abruptly last year in the middle of the busy summer season to recuperate in Tuxpan. Once a week, he makes the six-hour round-trip drive to see a therapist in Mexico City. He's planning on returning to the Hamptons in March to begin buying seeds and drawing...
...Egyptians like to call the Sudanese refugees ?our brothers.? After all, the neighboring countries have had cultural and historic ties for thousands of years. However, of the multitude of refugees that have fled the turmoil of Sudan, particularly the genocidal killings in the Darfur region, only 30,000 have official refugee status in Egypt. The rest are in legal limbo, hoping to be allowed to migrate to Europe or America, but stymied by local authorities and, in their eyes, the United Nations commission on refugees. On Dec. 30, as 2005 ended, tragedy struck in a very unbrotherly...
...gunman walked into a hall of the Indian Institute of Science, a prestigious academic institution in Bangalore,and opened fire with a Chinese-made AK-56 rifle at the delegates attending a conference. A retired Mathematics professor was killed; four others were injured. The gunman scaled a wall and fled. (Four unexploded grenades were also discovered on the Institute's campus...