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...bitterness of Jenin's grim history rebounded on Younis' bridge-building effort. Fatah commander Zubeidi told TIME that the focus of the hostility against Younis was the short presentation on the Holocaust that she delivered to her musicians during the bus ride to Tel Aviv. "She should have been telling them about the current holocaust that the Israelis have been inflicting on the Palestinians for the past 60 years," Zubeidi said. He ordered the conductor out of Jenin, he explained, because of "threats" by "angry Palestinians", including some of the musicians' parents...
...That's why Panthera, whose conservation efforts focus exclusively on endangered cats like jaguars and tigers, will be launching an innovative program in the Brazilian Pantanal this summer. The program will be carried out jointly with New York City's Mt. Sinai Medical School, and will involve a unique exchange of services that includes conservation, health care and disease research. Mt. Sinai's medical students and researchers will come to Panthera's 270-sq.-mi. (700-sq.-km) Pantanal ranch (which includes a jaguar habitat), where they will give free medical care to locals. That care, along with a free...
...announcement—which highlighted Chu’s role in promoting renewable energy and reducing carbon emissions both as a policymaker and as an academic—reinforced Harvard’s recent focus on sustainability and other environmental issues, which were identified as some of University President Drew G. Faust’s top commitments...
Belt said that while MEFA had previously provided other funding resources in addition to parent loans, current economic conditions forced the authority to focus only on sustaining its traditional loans program...
...charter, which deems an attack on any one member state an attack on all and obliges all to respond collectively. That was the day after the 9/11 attacks in the U.S., and it laid the groundwork for NATO's current role in Afghanistan. That's the prime focus of the summit media packages, which include hours of footage of NATO forces in Afghan villages, highlighting projects such as health clinics and schools. "I didn't even know the [Afghan] provinces when I came to NATO five years ago," joked outgoing Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at a NATO Youth...