Moonlight closes season with strong ‘Miss Saigon’

By Carol Davis VISTA, California –Every now and then it’s good to look back and reflect on the deeds and actions in which our country has been involved. There’s nothing like a good old-fashioned tragedy to bring us to our senses, or not. Take for example Puccini’s  “Madama Butterfly” and Claude-Michael Schönberg and Alain Boublil’s

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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Mechanical engineering, studying chipped teeth, may determine what mammalian ancestors ate

TEL AVIV (Press Release) ― Were our early mammalian ancestors vegetarians, vegans or omnivores? It’s difficult for anthropologists to determine the diet of early mammalians because current fossil analysis provides too little information. But a new method that measures the size of chips in tooth fossils can help determine the kinds of foods these early humans

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Israeli archaelogists unearth depictions of Greek deities at Sussita

SUSSITA NATIONAL PARK, Israel (Press Release) — A wall painting (fresco) of Tyche, the Greek goddess of fortune, was exposed during the 11th season of excavation at the Sussita site, on the east shore of the Sea of Galilee, which was conducted by researchers of the University of Haifa. Another female figure was found during this

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Commentary: U.S. Mideast record not comforting close to the action

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–After doubtful claims of success in Iraq, and clearer failure in Afghanistan, the United States is tackling the problematical task of picking the good guys in Yemen. Maybe not the good guys. Hopefully the best guys, or those who score least bad on the score of unreliability. Or more likely, those who

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Mitchell: Mideast talks 'serious and substantive'

JERUSALEM (Press Release) — U.S. Middle East Envoy George Mitchell met with journalists on Wednesday, September 15, in Jerusalem, and provided the following information: MITCHELL: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I apologize for the delay, but it’s the result of the fact that a serious and substantive discussion is well underway. The trilateral discussion this evening

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Middle East, USA

Peres and Clinton meet the media

JERUSALEM (Press Release)–Israel’s President Shimon Peres and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met the media together on Wednesday, Sept. 15.  Here is a transcript of their comments. PRESIDENT PERES: Mrs. Secretary of State, ladies and gentlemen, I must admit I knew the Secretary of State a long time when she was called Hillary, and already

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Middle East

Swastika on Sacramento Kings billboard prompts reward offer

SAN FRANCISCO (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has announced a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the individual or individuals responsible for defacing a billboard image of Omri Casspi, the Israeli-born Sacramento Kings forward, with a swastika. The swastika, painted on the forehead of Casspi’s likeness, was reported on September

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Travel and Food

Companies soon may recruit the 'emotionally intelligent'

HAIFA (Press Release)–Employees with a high level of emotional intelligence are more dedicated and satisfied at work, compared to other employees. This has been shown in a new study from the University of Haifa. “This study has shown that employees with a higher level of emotional intelligence are assets to their organization. I believe it

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Counter-measures developed to guard against bacteria's resistance to anti-biotics

TEL AVIV (Press Release)― Antibiotics can work miracles, knocking out common infections like bronchitis and tonsillitis. But according to the Center for Disease Control, each year 90,000 people in the U.S. die of drug-resistant “superbugs” ― bacteria like Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a deadly form of staph infection resistant to normal antibiotics. Although hospital patients are

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