Yael Grossman on Science (Science Fair pamphlet)

I went into Science because it would teach me about the world.
I stayed with Science for the mystery.
I'll teach Science for others to feel what I felt.

    

India 'on course' for the Moon

"India is on course to send a spacecraft to the Moon, the country's top space body says.

Some of the country's leading scientists have met to review the mission which has been in the pipeline for the last several months.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which hosted the meeting, said the mission was likely to take place in 2008."

    

Barry Sakharov - Live 93-02

"There isn't a musician in Israel who is as innovative as rock veteran Barry Sakharov. With each album Sakharov breaks new ground. From the slick pop of Hakol O Klum (All or Nothing) to the dark garage rock of Simanim Shel Holeshet (Signs of Weakness) to the electronic Middle Eastern stylings of Negiot (Touches), Sakharov has pioneered a style of Israeli rock unaffected by the standard folk musings of the majority of popular Israeli singer-songwriters."

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Bail Denied for Mike Hawash in Secret Hearing (Talkleft)

"Another example of the end of due process as we know it. Bail was denied in a secret hearing for Mike Hawash who is being held as a material witness in Oregon."

    

The Coming Imperialism? A Tale of Two Colonies (Robert D. Kaplan in The Atlantic)

"Yemen and Eritrea, two case studies in the war on terrorism. In Yemen the United States has to work with unsavory people in a tribalized society in order to prevent more-unsavory people from destabilizing it to the benefit of Osama bin Laden. In Eritrea the United States may have to use a bilateral military relationship to nudge the country's President toward prudent political and economic reform, so that Eritrea, too, won't be destabilized. Thus our military involvement with both nations will mean political involvement in their domestic affairs"

    

Dynamist Blog: ELDER OF ZION? (Virgina Postell)

"I'm getting a noticeable amount of traffic from searches for "Donald Rumsfeld Jewish." In case you're one of those wondering, no he isn't. Rumsfeld is a German name. Feel better?"

    

Has Pennsylvania Banned This Web Site Yet? State won't identify Web sites blocked for child pornography (Star Tribune)

Yudel's Line: It's not that we traffic in pornography here at YudelLine. But if we can't see the list that PA is banning, how do we know that some sites are on the list for other reasons.... such as calling the legislature and attorney general of the state a bunch of dangerous, anti-American buffoons?

    

Iraq and the NRA: Reader Response - Why you can buy guns in Saddam's police state. (Slate)

"Three weeks ago, Chatterbox wondered aloud how Iraq could be a police state given that, according to Neil MacFarquhar of the New York Times, "Most Iraqi households own at least one gun." Chatterbox had been given to understand, by the National Rifle Association, that widespread gun ownership was a Jeffersonian bulwark against unfree government. Why did it fail in Iraq?"

    

Terror Works! High Court: Women's group can't read Torah at Wall (Ha'aretz)

The High Court of Justice ruled 5-4 Sunday that "Women of the Wall" - a group advocating women's prayer in the Western Wall plaza - is not allowed to conduct group prayer with a Torah scroll in front of the Wall, but that the government has one year to prepare the nearby Robinson's Arch area for their use.

The court accepted the government's position that allowing the group to pray at the plaza constituted a danger to public safety. Previous attempts by the women to worship at the Wall, while wearing prayer shawls (tallit) and reading from the Torah, have provoked anger and violence from the ultra-Orthodox community.

The court ruled, however, that if the government does not prepare Robinson's Arch within one year, it will have to permit Women of the Wall to pray in the plaza.

"Today proves that women are second-class citizens in Israel," said Anat Hoffman, head of Women of the Wall as well as director of the Reform Action Center and former Jerusalem city council member (Meretz). She described the decision as "not very brave."

The women pray together as a group on the first day of every Jewish month.

In a separate May 2000 decision, the High Court ruled that the women could pray in the Western Wall plaza, but the government requested an additional court hearing and then permitted the Women of the Wall to pray in the plaza as long as group members did not wear a prayer shawl or phylacteries (tefillin), or read from a Torah scroll.

    

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