Muslim safe spaces, increased lessons on Islam during social studies classes, and other measures will be adopted by San Diego Unified School District to combat bullying. The Council for American-Islamic Relations and school officials in southern California collaborated on a “holistic” approach to bullying that will likely be implemented this fall. The changes, which include […]
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –While I gravitated on Wednesday, April 5, to an exhibit featuring the image of Albert Einstein and another portraying the cells that I imagine Jonas Salk grappled with while developing the vaccine against polio, my grandchildren—Sky, 10, Brian, 8, and Sara, 6 – were transfixed by a room filled
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USAAsher Faraj’s attorneys expected to employ insanity defense to defend the 77-year-old in court By Jacob Magid Asher Faraj seen in the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court on March 15, 2017. (Flash90) An elderly Holocaust survivor accused of burning a nurse to death at a Holon clinic was indicted on murder charges at the Tel Aviv
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationSANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) – Anti-Semitism on campus increased 40% and genocidal expression doubled in 2016, according to AMCHA Initiative’s annual study, released Tuesday, that examines anti-Semitism at more than 100 public and private colleges and universities with the largest Jewish undergraduate populations. Main findings of the study include: 40% Spike: Anti-Semitism on campuses most popular for
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABen-Gurion University researchers predict the snake-like, ingestible device will revolutionize colonoscopy tests By Times of Israel staff A depiction of the SAW (single actuator wave-like robot) designed by Israeli scientists at Ben Gurion University. (Screen capture/YouTube) A tiny ingestible robot designed by Israeli scientists may one day have the capacity to slither its way through
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationWorld Autism Awareness Day (WAAD) was adopted by the United Nations in 2007 to highlight the growing healthy crisis globally. Since then, it is celebrated on April 2 each year. “Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that manifests itself during the first three years of life and results from a neurological disorder that affects the
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JERUSALEM (Press Release) – Late Saturday night on April 1st, two EMTs, Dvir Adani and Moshe Mizrachi, decided that they would play an April Fool’s joke on their friends. The pair of United Hatzalah volunteers were driving past Ben Gurion airport on their way to buff calls in the center of the country when they
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and FoodCalifornia’s cigarette tax increased by $2 a pack Saturday under new tobacco policies passed by voters during last November’s general election. Smokers in California will now pay $2.87 in state taxes for a pack of cigarettes, more than tripling the 87-cent tax levied before the new excise took hold April 1. In implementing the $2
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAOn the same day the stockbroker for then-Georgia Congressman Tom Price bought him up to $90,000 of stock in six pharmaceutical companies last year, Price arranged to call a top U.S. health official, seeking to scuttle a controversial rule that could have hurt the firms’ profits and driven down their share prices, records obtained by
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt decided to deny a petition to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos, which is said to harm children’s brains, the agency announced Wednesday. During the Barack Obama administration, the EPA proposed to revoke all uses of the pesticide on food after a petition from the Natural Resources Defense Council
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAThis week, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first drug to treat primary progressive multiple sclerosis, the most severe form of the disease. Ocrelizumab, commercially known as Ocrevus, will become available to the public in two weeks, and represents hope for a group of MS patients who had no drug options, CNN reported. It
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A pair of students from the University of San Diego admitted on Thursday that they had pulled down a lower branch of a 13-foot high menorah at the Chabad House at San Diego State University, apologized to Chabad Rabbi Chalom Boudjnah, and agreed to pay for the damages
Pro-life activists released a new undercover video Wednesday showing a former Planned Parenthood official suggesting that babies born alive after abortions are sometimes left to die. The video was released less than a day after David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress were charged by California prosecutors with 15 felonies for
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie didn’t get tapped for the dream jobs of vice president, attorney general or chief of staff, but he has at last joined the Trump administration to work on a nightmare issue close to his heart. On Wednesday, Christie debuted as the new chairman of a commission to combat opioid abuse,
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