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...forbidding abusive interrogation methods. Israel has argued that its tactics amount to "moderate physical and psychological pressure," not torture, and are often used to extract information from suspects who may know about terrorist attacks. "We cannot but express disappointment at the conclusions of the committee," said Israel's representative, Yosef Lamdan. "It is absolutely not the case that Israel uses torture." Despite Israel's claim its prisoners are not tortured, more than 20 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons since the signing of the U.N. convention in 1987. It's unlikely that Israel will change interrogation practices any time soon...
...Ofer Bar-Yosef, a Harvard University anthropologist, believes the intermingling occurred when the advance of Ice Age glaciers forced Neanderthals to move south into Homo sapiens' regions and when retreating glaciers allowed early Homo sapiens to follow Neanderthals back into northern climes. Still others, citing anatomical changes in the most recent Neanderthals, think they evolved independently into early Europeans.Wolpoff suggests a Solomonic solution for resolving the Neanderthal debate: phrasing the question correctly. "We can't be asking, 'Are Neanderthals the ancestors of humans?' " he says. "We should be asking, 'Are some Neanderthals ancestral to some Europeans?' And the answer...
After another brief delay, the musicians, sporting predictably funky fashions, entered in a single-file procession, led by the snare drum beat of "groove regulator" Yosef Siegel. They mounted the stage and began the "Funkmove," a churning groove heavy with bass, drums, and wa-wa guitar effects. This introduction went on for nearly 20 minutes while the crew struggled to get sound to the singers' microphones. The funknical difficulties seemed to sap some of the crowd's thump-with-your-rump energy...
...doubt some of the President-elect's differences with Bush have to be discounted as inflated campaign rhetoric. Israeli political scientist Yosef Goell, a columnist for the Jerusalem Post, regards the Democrat's promised tilt back to Israel as "total nonsense" and "all a smokescreen" designed to woo America's Jewish vote. On the whole, in fact, both major-party nominees saw eye to eye on the country's global role. Says Robert Hunter of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "One good thing about this election is that the two candidates are internationalist. The isolationists were defeated...
...group effectively combined different musical styles. The lead guitarist Ross Markonish's solos and Yosef Siegal's drumming had a classic rock feel. But the guitar chord progressions, Leif Simonson's basslines and Arik Grier's vocals definitely had a more alternative flavor. They would be probably be as comfortable playing Led Zeppelin as Sonic Youth, whose "Kool Sing" Goatboy covered effectively...