By TOI staff Israeli high schools will be closed on Sunday as teachers stage a one-day strike demanding higher salaries, the teachers’ union announced Friday. “The Union of Secondary School Teachers announces that due to the procrastination and lack of progress being made by the Finance and Education Ministries in the negotiations on the wage […]
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationNEW YORK (Press Release) – Masa Israel Journey, the global leader in long-term international career development and leadership experiences in Israel for young adults from around the world, has hit record numbers for participation in school year 2017-18. Some 13,000 young people between the ages of 18 and 30 are anticipated to participate in Masa
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USAScientists have discovered that a subsurface ocean on Enceladus could have existed for billions of years, providing plenty of time for microbial alien life to emerge and evolve. One of Saturn’s icy moons, Enceladus is considered one of the best bets for finding extraterrestrial life within our solar system. Geophysical evidence has long suggested it
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Science, Medicine, & EducationFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The death of a 20-year-old fraternity pledge from Pompano Beach led Florida State University to shut down all Greek life activities Monday. Alcohol is suspected of playing a role in the death of Andrew Coffey, whose body was found Friday — the morning after a gathering of more than 50 people
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAPresident Donald Trump blamed the Texas church shooting that left at least 26 dead on mental health problems, but experts say that it’s much more complicated than that. Trump, who’s visiting Japan, spoke about the shooting in a press conference Monday. “We have a lot of mental health problems in our country, as do other
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAScientists say people with autism might have too many brain connections, causing communication problems in their nervous systems. At the root of the issue is a malfunctioning gene within the brain cells called neurons. The RNF8 gene helps to regulate the connections, known as synapses, between these neurons that allow communications to travel between them.
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Science, Medicine, & EducationUniversity Hospital nurse Alex Wubbels who violently arrested in July by a Salt Lake City police officer reached a settlement of $500,000 with all the parties involved Tuesday. Wubbels’ controversial arrest after she refused to let the officer Jeff Payne draw blood from an unconscious patient without his consent, was recorded on officers’ body camera,
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USALOS ANGELES — SWAT officers on Tuesday evening swarmed a Riverside elementary school classroom and shot a parent who had taken a teacher hostage, ending an hourslong standoff. The parent, identified as Luvelle Kennon, 27, of Riverside died later at a hospital, said Riverside police Officer Ryan Railsback. The teacher, Linda Montgomery, sustained some scrapes
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Dov Lieber It took Asfahan Bahloul, a leading Arab Israeli researcher of the Holocaust, quite some time to formulate how she feels when she sees Israeli jets soaring over Auschwitz. She had to think about it for weeks. And then a few more days. She finally sent her answer by email, to which this
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationRutgers condemns hate, launches inquiry of two faculty members An anti-Semitic cartoon taken from the Facebook page of Prof. Michael Chikindas. Image courtesy JTA Scarlet Knights for Israel president Miriam Waghalter said it was urgent for Rutgers to suspend Chikindas. Rutgers Prof. Michael Chikindas is under fire after anti-Semitic posts made on Facebook went viral.
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAHollywood has apparently discovered that a growing segment of the population is on the autism spectrum. The 2017 “Power Rangers” movie and new Netflix series “Atypical,” for instance, have main characters with autism. Perhaps the most high-profile offering is ABC’s new show “The Good Doctor.” The drama stars Freddie Highmore as Dr. Shaun Murphy, a
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Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & BroadcastIf you end up with a stash of black licorice after Halloween, the Food and Drug Administration is warning you to only eat it in moderation. It’s possible to overdose on the old-fashioned favorite, the FDA warns on its website. Don’t get tricked into eating too much black licorice! RELATED: Why do so many Americans
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Science, Medicine, & EducationThe traveller (maybe from another star) didn’t stay long and it’s moving away fast This gif shows the unique path of the strange object that zoomed through our solar system over the past few months. NASA/JPL-Caltech Travelling between the stars has been a dream of humanity for generations. But while our species might not be
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Science, Medicine, & EducationDoctors in India have successfully separated conjoined twin boys who were attached at the skull in a marathon surgical procedure that lasted more than 36 hours and involved 40 doctors. The two-year-old twins, who suffered a rare condition occurring once in about 2.5 million births, underwent the operation at a government-run hospital in New Delhi
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