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Unlike Hussein's Jordanian-born third wife. Alia, who died in a helicopter crash 15 months ago, Lisa will not, at least initially, be named Queen. Instead she will be a princess, with the Arabic name Nur el Hussein (Light of Hussein). Raised as a Protestant, she will convert to Islam...
Friends of both families hope that Princess Nur will light up Hussein's domestic life, which has been almost as stormy as his quarter-century reign over the embattled Hashemite kingdom. After establishing early in his adulthood a reputation as a playboy with a roving eye, the King was married briefly at 19 to a distant cousin. Following a divorce in 1957, he wed an English girl named Toni Gardiner and rechristened her Princess Muna el Hussein (Desire of Hussein). The King's desire waned in 1972, after he met beauteous Alia Toukan, 23, the U.S.-educated daughter...
...Nur O. Yalman, the third faculty adviser for HUISA, underlined the need for the organization, referring to the large number of foreign students at Harvard. Over 1300 graduate students and almost 300 undergraduates represent 103 countries at Harvard...
...Nur Yalman, professor of Middle Eastern Studies and a member of the commission, says that maintaining unrestricted education can only be done with "difficulty." "I'm not sure we will be able to do a great deal," Yalman says, but he added that the problem should be no more difficult than maintaining freedom in many European countries, including Spain and Portugal...
...Russian discoveries reawakened interest in the subject. Geophysicist Christopher Scholz of Lamont-Doherty and Amos Nur at Stanford, both of whom had studied under Brace at M.I.T., independently published papers that used dilatancy to explain the Russian findings. Both reports pointed out an apparent paradox: when the cracks first open in the crustal rock, its strength increases. Temporarily, the rock resists fracturing and the quake is delayed. At the same time, seismic waves slow down because they do not travel as fast through the open spaces as they do through solid rock. Eventually ground water begins to seep into...