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...evidence on the ossuary - but perhaps not in a stalagmite in a cave. Or vice versa. "The analogy between the formation of cave deposits and the formation of patina on archeological objects is imprecise and more work is needed," says Professor Aldo Shemesh, an isotope expert at the Weizmann Institute who was also called as a defense expert. In the end, using this kind of evicence is a numbers game - figuring on averages of statistics over which all the experts disagree. Says Shemesh: "Scientific debates should be discussed and resolved in peer-reviewed literature and scientific conferences, not in court...
...from shtetl and ghetto in the wilderness of the Diaspora. At last, 40 years ago the arc of the desire was completed, the dream implanted in history. Israel, thought David Ben-Gurion, would be a ''light unto the nations.'' In his memoirs in 1949, the first Israeli President, Chaim Weizmann, wrote about the Zionist ambition to build a ''high civilization, based on the austere standards of Jewish ethics.'' But the Zionist dream cracked when it fell to earth. ''A land without people for a people without land,'' said the hopeful Zionist formula. But Palestine was not a ''land without people...
...blood as he stood guard duty in Bethlehem. The army issued new shoot-to-kill orders against any Palestinian throwing Molotov cocktails. It also said in effect that Jewish settlers in the territories would be permitted to shoot rioters attacking them with gasoline bombs. There was prescience in Chaim Weizmann's declaration in 1949: ''I am certain that the world will judge the Jewish state by what it will do with the Arabs.'' The world's judgment this year is sometimes harsh, at least on the question of what the Israelis have done in regard to the Arabs...
...Nidal began life as a privileged bourgeois scion of what was formerly Palestine. His father, Khalil, was a prominent landowner and agricultural merchant in Jaffa who at one time had close ties with Israel's legendary first President, Chaim Weizmann. One of Abu Nidal's elder brothers, Mohammed, is still a prosperous merchant in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Abu Nidal attended school in Jaffa and Jerusalem, but his family fled before the 1948 war that accompanied the foundation of Israel. Eventually the family settled in Beirut. By some accounts, Abu Nidal attended the American University there, where he trained...
...What the Weizmann researchers found was that your ability to recognize certain patterns on a computer screen is directly tied to the amount of REM sleep you get. Such skills depend on something called procedural memory, which is needed for any task that requires repetition and practice. Remembering a fact, like the name of the first U.S. President, is an example of declarative memory, a different kind of capability that apparently is not affected by REM sleep. Says Robert Stickgold, a cognitive neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School: "We were basically naive about memory...