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SPUSA is a campus offshoot of a national organization that holds conferences promoting dialogue between professional scientists and politicians. The group takes its name from the location of its first conference, held in 1957 in the village of Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada, at which 22 eminent scientists gathered to discuss the threat posed by the advent of thermonuclear weapons. The conference in 1995 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize...
...Greystone campus--an offshoot of the CIA's main campus in Hyde Park, N.Y.--features four "Career Discovery" programs, aimed at those who are thinking of entering the culinary profession or who are already working in it. Students learn about such topics as food preparation, food presentation, business aspects of the industry and industry terminology. Classes are six-hour morning or afternoon sessions, given over a four-or five-day period. This schedule leaves students time to explore the nearly 500 wineries and numerous gourmet restaurants in Napa and neighboring Sonoma counties. Tuition ranges from $725 to $995. About...
...Fahed wears fatigues and a stocking cap with narrow eyeholes cut into it. Around his brow is a white strip of cloth with black writing: KATA'IB SHUHADA' AL-AQSA, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an offshoot of Arafat's Fatah organization that vies with Hamas as the principal orchestrator of attacks on Israelis, including civilians. As the gunmen crouch behind their 15-ft. sand barricade, they shift their feet and their grips on their weapons, on some level wishing that the Israelis would come now and be done with it. "I'm prepared for martyrdom," Abu al-Fahed, 28, says...
...Bank and Gaza) is a calculated political risk for Israel. The authorities aim to produce evidence - including testimony from, among others, two imprisoned Barghouti deputies who have apparently agreed to speak against their boss - portraying Barghouti as the operational godfather of the Al Aksa Martyr's Brigade, a Fatah offshoot responsible for scores of suicide terror attacks that have killed hundreds of Israeli civilians. Israeli officials hope such a charge will convince the world of the Palestinian Authority's intimate involvement in terrorism - Barghouti, after all, is a senior Palestinian legislator and the organizational chief of Arafat's own political...
...fact, we may be getting a bit quick building our memorials, in an unspoken effort to rush through a state of mourning - an offshoot of the nonsensical notion of "closure." Death occurs, and in no time up pop communal memorial gestures - flowers and messages borne to suddenly consecrated places such as Strawberry Fields and John Kennedy Jr.'s doorstep. Hasty or not, memorials have clearly become one of the nation's meeting places. The most artistic pop culture representation of this new sense of comfort is the HBO series, "Six Feet Under," in which the dead do not simply walk...