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When Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sit down with other Arab leaders and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at a forthcoming Middle East summit in Annapolis, Md., the future of Jerusalem, a city holy to three religions, will be a constant shadow over the negotiations. Palestinians have long demanded that the eastern part of the city should be the capital of the state of which they have dreamed for decades. For Jews, who pined 2,000 years for Jerusalem, victory in the Six-Day War of 1967--and with it, control over the whole...
...school, which many see as a glorified romper room that focuses too much on learning through play. And of course, after years of Baby Einstein marketing, some parents have become convinced that the more math and reading skills their tots master, the better. Srinivas Rao, a veterinarian in Columbia, Md., began sending his daughter Sanjana to after-school tutoring last summer, shortly before her third birthday. To his delight, he soon found she could not only count the 14 dots on her homework work sheet but also write 14 beside them. "I didn't think kids could just learn that...
...quartet the Dismemberment Plan, is my favorite high school record. I don’t think it’s really a problem that I had not heard it until the end of my sophomore year of college. Not everyone agrees with me.My girlfriend grew up in Bethesda, Md. The D-Plan’s lead singer once called her parents to persuade them to let her attend a concert they were playing in a bad part of town. When I told her I was going to write about “Emergency...
Cheong stunned the industry in 1991 when he told McDonnell Douglas that its new, much anticipated wide-body aircraft, the MD-11, did not meet SIA's long-haul performance specifications. Cheong canceled a $3.1 billion order and opted for the Airbus A340-300 instead...
Bioengineer J. Craig Venter is expected to announce within the next few months, perhaps weeks, that he and his company, Synthetic Genomics of Rockvile, Md. and La Jolla, Calif., have created Earth’s first artificial life form. The feat will be an important milestone in the growing scientific world of “synthetic biology” (synbio). If you haven’t heard of synthetic biology yet, you are not alone. Research in this groundbreaking field is advancing light years ahead of public awareness, but decisions made now will have implications for everyone within the next...