Donald H. Harrison

Security Council Resolution on Israel to be Adopted after U.S. Presidential Polls

Tel Aviv-U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro revealed on Sunday that Washington is circulating several proposals to resume the stalled peace talks. Dan Shapiro did not rule out the adoption of an international resolution in this regard. This came as Americans have been leaking information that the the White House is outraged at the Israeli […]

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International, Middle East, USA

Dramatic deterioration in Peres’ condition

A dramatic deterioration Tuesday in the condition of former president Shimon Peres, who is hospitalized at the Sheba (Tel Hashomer) hospital in Ramat Gan since suffering a stroke nearly two weeks ago. Doctors now believe that his neurological situation is irreversible. Peres’s condition deteriorated despite daily improvements since he suffered the stroke. Last week President

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Middle East

TAU researchers gain new insight into multiple sclerosis

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Multiple sclerosis is one of the most devastating neurodegenerative diseases. It affects some 2.5 million people worldwide. It has no known cure. Until now, researchers have speculated that the body’s own immune system was unleashing an uncontrolled attack on myelin sheaths — our neurons’ protective shield — that was largely responsible

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Retirement community living — what it’s like

By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — “It is windy today!” “No it’s not Wednesday today; it’s Thursday!” “You’re thirsty?” If you live in a retirement community, you may have heard a similar conversation followed by peals of laughter. I live in one. Actually it’s not just a retirement community—it’s White Sands La Jolla,

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Natasha Josefowitz, San Diego County, Travel and Food

Clinton to PM: I’ll oppose any outside solution to conflict

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday that, if elected, she would oppose any attempts to impose an outside solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as any one-sided action at the UN. In a meeting in New York, Clinton said she was committed to countering efforts to delegitimize Israel and

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Middle East, USA

Analysis: For Clinton and Trump, first debate could be a last chance to change voters’ minds

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump step onto the biggest shared stage of their presidential campaign Monday chasing the same goal: persuading voters to discard long-held and sharply negative views of them. Trump faces the biggest task in this first presidential debate, to accomplish in one night what he has not been able

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USA

China Switches On World’s Largest Radio Telescope

The world’s largest single-dish radio telescope — Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) — has received its first signals from space. The behemoth, nestled in a natural crater in Guizhou Province in southwest China, will now be tested for three years before it becomes fully operational. “This is very exciting,” Peng Bo, FAST

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International, Science, Medicine, & Education

50 years later, protestors re-enact a farmworker strike that is scarcely mentioned in the history books

In the summer of 1966, hundreds of farm workers in Texas marched from Rio Grande City to Austin — almost 500 miles over 90 days — to demand change. They weren’t asking for anything fancy. They wanted better wages, restrooms and uncontaminated water for the people cultivating and picking melons and other crops. Now 50

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USA

Where do the Candidates Stand on Scientific Issues?

This week’s debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is the first of three the candidates will engage in before the November election. As in years past, each debate will be broadly aimed at one of three single subject areas—domestic policy, the economy and foreign policy. For the last several election cycles, a consortium of

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA