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...religion," he says. "They are just happy that I have a chance to escape from here." But in Iraq, tolerance has become a rare commodity. Hatred between Iraq's Shi'ites and Sunnis runs so deep that few dare cross the divide and seek partners outside their sect. Jumana Majid, 24, and Abdel-Salaam al-Hilli, 27, both graduate students at Baghdad University, had been involved for three years before he formally asked to marry her. Majid's parents, who are Sunni, quickly gave their blessing, but two of her three brothers stood in the way. "My youngest brother...
...Thanks be to God, now I'm leaving.' ALI HASSAN AL-MAJID, known as Chemical Ali, on receiving his death sentence handed down by the Iraqi High Tribunal on June 24. A cousin of Saddam Hussein, he was found guilty of orchestrating deadly gas attacks on Kurds...
...Thanks be to God, now I'm leaving.' ALI HASSAN AL-MAJID, known as Chemical Ali, on receiving his death sentence. A cousin of Saddam Hussein's, he was found guilty of orchestrating deadly gas attacks on Kurds...
...security concern: monitoring levels of toxic waste. The researchers decided to pitch the project to the National Science Foundation, where the project was a “natural fit,” he said. The project began to receive funding from the National Science Foundation last August. According to Majid Ezzati, one of the project’s principal investigators, CitySense could give scientists more data and better accuracy in their measurements, alleviating some of the major problems of environmental science. Ezzati is an assistant professor of international health at the Harvard School of Public Health. The current sensors that...
Differences in life expectancies among dissimilar groups of American citizens are drastic, says a study released Monday by Harvard researchers Christopher J. L. Murray ’83, Sandeep C. Kulkarni ’04, and Majid Ezzati. Asian-American women from Bergen County, N.J., have the highest national life expectancy—91 years—while Native Americans from South Dakota can expect to live only 58 years. Just two years after Democratic vice-presidential candidate John Edwards spoke of “two Americas”—haves and have-nots—the study...