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...going to happen to my kid? Will this institution equip my child in ways that generate confidence? Will I be able to find some diamonds in the rough?" Zemsky's scheme "got us all thinking about how we evaluate ourselves," says Freeman Hrabowski III, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. "And the emphasis is correct; it's on outcomes. Parents can now say, 'My son or daughter is interested in becoming a scientist. What's your record in producing scientists...
...palpable distrust between Israeli and Palestinian leaders despite six days of intense talks in a Maryland compound bodes ill for real progress, whatever the spin on the outcome of the talks. Israel wants Arafat to clamp down hard on his Hamas opponents; Arafat is reluctant to take unpopular steps on behalf of an Israeli government he doesn't trust. "Arafat has lost hope that he can make significant progress with Netanyahu," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "He's unlikely to make unpopular decisions for a deal he doesn't believe Netanyahu will keep anyway." Arafat's reported illness...
None of which explains why Netanyahu picked him. Netanyahu had held the foreign portfolio himself since January but relinquished it in preparation for this week's U.S.-sponsored Israeli-Palestinian summit at the Wye Plantation in Maryland. That meeting is aimed at achieving further Israeli withdrawal from parts of the West Bank, a move hotly opposed by Netanyahu's far-right coalition allies, who have threatened to bring down the government over the issue. Sharon's promotion is Netanyahu's sop to them, an unpleasant one for the Prime Minister, given the long rivalry between the two men. The idea...
Making them required tanker technology. Each of the plates weighs between 15 and 20 tons, and few steel-mill machines existed that could bend them. Serra eventually found one in Maryland. All that tonnage (literally: the aggregate weight of the seven Torqued Ellipses comes to nearly 400 tons, giving this a claim to be the most ponderous one-man show in history) had to be shipped to Los Angeles via the Panama Canal and set up inside the Geffen Contemporary. The plates couldn't be craned in through its doors, and so, recalls the museum's director, Richard Koshalek...
...blood-spattered bus station in Beer Sheba may remind Israeli and Palestinian leaders of why they're holed up in Maryland talking peace, but it's unlikely to bring them any closer to a deal. A Palestinian man wounded 64 people in the Israeli town when he tossed two hand grenades into a crowded bus station on Monday, as deadlocked talks between Benjamin Netanyahu and Yasser Arafat at Wye Plantation were extended until Tuesday. "This isn't going to affect the outcome at Wye," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "Even before the attack, it looked unlikely they...