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Teenagers from Sderot in a Jerusalem hotel
JERUSALEM, 29 May 2007 (IRIN) - Schools reopened on Monday in the Israeli border town of Sderot, which has been hard hit by rockets fired by suspected Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, but fewer than a third of schoolchildren attended.
In some schools less than 10 percent of students showed up, Israeli media reported.
Some students preferred to stay away from the city and take advantage of government and charity programmes offering residents of Sderot the chance to spend time in hotels in other parts of the country, beyond the rockets’ range. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Middle East Report, News Articles, Recent Posts on May 31, 2007 - י"ד סיון תשס"ז at 9:09 pm
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By Ruth Eglash, Jerusalem Post, May 31, 2007
A visiting British parliamentarian who has taken up the cause of improving life for families with autistic children is looking to Israel for answers on how to improve special needs within the UK’s education system, and to raise public awareness on the condition in general.
“I think one of the ways forward to understanding between two countries is where they can share things,” Lee Scott, Conservative party MP for Ilford North told The Jerusalem Post in an interview Wednesday. “If Israel has made headway in this subject, then there is no reason why other countries should not benefit and learn from it.”
Scott, who has been visiting this week as part of an organized delegation of Conservative Friends of Israel, told the Post that Britain has much to learn from Israel as far as legislation providing for families with special-needs children, and medical research on the subject conducted by the country’s various universities. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Education Report, Middle East Report, Recent Posts, Special Education on May 31, 2007 - י"ד סיון תשס"ז at 5:54 pm
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They already have good grasp of how much is ‘more’ or ‘less,’ study shows.
By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter
WEDNESDAY, May 30 (HealthDay News) — Five-year-olds can come to approximate solutions for addition and subtraction problems even before they formally learn arithmetic, a new study suggests.
“Children do not need to be taught the logic of symbolic addition and subtraction in order to perform approximate symbolic arithmetic,” concludes lead author Camilla Gilmore a research fellow at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Education Report, Recent Posts on May 30, 2007 - י"ג סיון תשס"ז at 7:56 pm
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By Israel Zwick, CN Publications, May 29, 2007
“Joey, are you OK, you’ve been in the bathroom a long time,” shouted Mrs. Miller from the kitchen, “if you don’t come out soon, you’ll be late for school.” Joey comes out of the bathroom and timidly approaches his mother, “Mom, can I stay home from school today, it’s very cold today and it’s a long walk?”
“Joey, that’s what you said last week, and we went out and bought you the best coat, gloves, and boots. With the clothing that you have, you can march with the penguins.”
“Mommy, couldn’t I stay home today and study by myself, I would get all my work done,” pleaded Joey.
“Your teacher tells me that you’re so smart that you could become a rocket scientist or a brain surgeon, so why don’t you go off to school and make your mother proud!”
Joey reluctantly picked up his backpack and walked out the door.
As Joey approached his school, the dreaded event occurred. He was pummeled with a barrage of hard-packed snowballs coming from behind a parked car. As he dodged to avoid the onslaught, he slipped on a piece of ice and fell to the ground. He looked up and faced Tony, the class bully, holding a wad of snow.
“What have we got for a snack today? Turn it over if you don’t want a pile of snow down your neck,” demanded Tony. Joey reluctantly relinquished his pack of chocolate chip cookies. He knew exactly what Tony was going to say next because he heard it so many times before, “You better not tell the teacher or you’ll be walking home with a bloody nose.” Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Middle East Report, Opinion, Recent Posts, Zwick's Picks on May 29, 2007 - י"ב סיון תשס"ז at 2:22 pm
Oil services and infrastructure company says it is looking to launch $80 billion in new projects worldwide during the next five years
Reprinted from CNN Money, May 22 2007
DUBAI (Reuters) — U.S. oil services firm Halliburton is looking for major investors to take a stake in the company as it eyes about $80 billion in projects worldwide during the next five years.
“One of my goals would be to find a set of investors or an investor interested in taking a longer-term investment in the company,” Halliburton CEO Dave Lesar told reporters Tuesday when asked if the firm is searching for major investors as it expands outside the Americas.
Halliburton (Charts, Fortune 500) is tracking about 60 projects worldwide worth about $80 billion for which it may compete during the next five years, Lesar told a briefing in Dubai, out of a potential oil services project market of around $100 billion a year, he said.
The company recently relocated its headquarters to Dubai. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Business and Commerce, Middle East Report on May 23, 2007 - ו' סיון תשס"ז at 2:47 pm
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More rockets hit southern Israel despite Olmert warning (1st Lead)
Monsters and Critics.com - 1 hour ago
Gaza City - An Israeli airstrike on a Gaza City building block factory killed a 28-year-old civilian and injured at least three other people overnight, Palestinian medical officials said Monday.
Israel threatens to hit Hamas leadership Middle East Times
Four Qassams hit Negev; IDF troops on alert for kidnap bid Ha’aretz
ThreatsWatch.Org - Jerusalem Post - Belfast Telegraph - Chosun Ilbo
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Fighting in northern Lebanon enters second day
People’s Daily Online - 38 minutes ago
The fighting between the Lebanese troops and militants around a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon entered the second day on Monday, after the violence on the previous day left at least 48 people dead, Arabia TV reported.
Lebanon sees worst internal fighting in Toronto Star
39 Killed in Lebanese Violence ABC News
Houston Chronicle - Canada.com - Times Online - ABC Online
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Roadside bomb kills three Iraqi soldiers in Baghdad
People’s Daily Online - 44 minutes ago
A roadside bomb went off near an Iraqi army patrol in western Baghdad on Monday, killing three soldiers and wounding two others, an Interior Ministry source said.
Attacks in Iraq Leave 7 Soldiers, 1 Interpreter Dead, Army Says Bloomberg
Roadside bomb kills 6 US soldiers in Iraq National Post
Boston Globe - Kansas City Star - New York Times - Reuters AlertNet
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US convoy likely target of bomber; 14 Afghans killed
Indianapolis Star - 2 hours ago
AP. GARDEZ, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber apparently targeting a US convoy killed 14 people and wounded 31 in a crowded eastern Afghan market Sunday, witnesses and officials said.
Afghan suicide bombing kills 14 Los Angeles Times
Afghanistan struck by second suicide bomb in two days Taipei Times
New York Times - International Herald Tribune - San Jose Mercury News
all 378 news articles » Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Middle East Report, News Articles, Recent Posts on May 21, 2007 - ד' סיון תשס"ז at 6:22 am
The Planet is Heating Up—and Fast
Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, cloud forests are drying, and wildlife is scrambling to keep pace. It’s becoming clear that humans have caused most of the past century’s warming by releasing heat-trapping gases as we power our modern lives. Called greenhouse gases, their levels are higher now than in the last 650,000 years.
We call the result global warming, but it is causing a set of changes to the Earth’s climate, or long-term weather patterns, that varies from place to place. As the Earth spins each day, the new heat swirls with it, picking up moisture over the oceans, rising here, settling there. It’s changing the rhythms of climate that all living things have come to rely upon.
What will we do to slow this warming? How will we cope with the changes we’ve already set into motion? While we struggle to figure it all out, the face of the Earth as we know it—coasts, forests, farms and snow-capped mountains—hangs in the balance. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Climate Change on May 20, 2007 - ג' סיון תשס"ז at 12:11 pm
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By Noam Bedein, Israel Insider, May 18, 2007
Ballplayers take cover (Yosi Shitrit/SderotMedia.com)
How can I begin to describe the experience I went through yesterday? How can you capture the shaking ground, the unbearable noise of the impact, the tears, the screaming, the mothers in hysterics — how can you, the reader, feel what I felt, see what I saw — just by reading these words? I ask you, leave your homes, your offices, your classrooms — and step into this world for a moment, into Sderot.
It was a type of scream I couldn’t recognize, half laughter, half terror, complete madness. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Middle East Report, News Articles, Recent Posts on May 20, 2007 - ג' סיון תשס"ז at 7:21 am
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By Ephraim Asculai, Canada Free Press, May 18, 2007
The facts concerning the status of Iran’s nuclear project are quite clear. Their implications are unequivocal. Yet there are those in the corridors of power that would lead us to believe that business is still as usual and that much can yet be done to reverse the situation. The following will review the facts, discuss their implications and evaluate the chances of dealing with the precarious situation at the present stage of developments. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Middle East Report, News Articles, Recent Posts on May 18, 2007 - א' סיון תשס"ז at 10:47 am
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By • Gerald M. Steinberg, Jewish Week, May 18, 2007
Gerald Steinberg directs the Program on Conflict Management at Bar Ilan University, and heads NGO Monitor. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East.
Special To The Jewish Week
http://www.thejewishweek.com/top/editletcontent.php3?artid=5965
See also: http://www.minorityrights.org/SWM2007/swm2007_threat.htm
The vote on yet another anti-Israel boycott resolution by a British trade-union - this time by the Universities and Colleges Union (UCU) - is scheduled to take place at the end of May. Beyond the obvious violations of the academic process inherent in a political and ideological boycott, this effort is part of a carefully prepared strategy aimed at isolating the Jewish state.
While genocide is taking place in Darfur, bitter conflicts rage in Sri Lanka and elsewhere, Russia has destroyed Chechnya and basic human rights are denied in the dictatorships from Libya through Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, democratic Israel alone is singled out for this dubious attention. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Judaism, Middle East Report, Opinion, Recent Posts on May 18, 2007 - א' סיון תשס"ז at 9:58 am
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