01/08/2009
Israelis Honor Fallen Soldiers, While Seeing the Gaza Campaign as Justified (New York Times)
Israelis are not relishing what lies ahead if the offensive on Gaza continues, but the majority remains staunchly behind the operation.
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01/08/2009
Series to focus on immigration, race and ethnicity (The Journal Times)
RACINE — The HOPES Center is presenting a series of sessions called “Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity: The View from Wisconsin and Racine.”
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01/02/2009
Lecture and movie series at MIT: "Iran Through the Lens of History" (Payvand Iran News)
Lecture and movie series deals with contemporary issues pertaining to Iranian politics, cinema, society and culture. The lectures will be delivered by Prof. Hamid Dabashi, a world renowned expert of Iranian history and Iranian cinema.
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01/07/2009
Schools prepare for Iowa Core Curriculum (Le Mars Daily Sentinel)
July 1, 2010 - school boards must adopt an implementation plan. 2012-13 School year - High school core curriculum must be implemented. 2014-15 School Year - Elementary and middle school core curriculum must be implemented.
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01/07/2009
Celebrate astronomy in 2009 (Knoxville News Sentinel)
With the bad economy, there may seem to be no reason to look up in 2009.
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01/06/2009
Schools prepare for Iowa Core Curriculum (Le Mars Daily Sentinel)
Action by the 2008 Iowa Legislature will have all schools in the state of Iowa following the Iowa Core Curriculum at the high school level starting in the 2012 school year.
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01/06/2009
IBM Lotus Delivers New "Social" Notes and Free Symphony Software for Macs (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
At Macworld, IBM today announced the availability of Lotus Notes 8.5 collaboration software with social computing features for all Mac OS X Leopard-powered computers. In addition, IBM's free Lotus Symphony document, spreadsheet and presentation software will be available later this month for the Mac.
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01/06/2009
82% of the Youth: Another Holocaust is Possible (Israel National News)
(IsraelNN.com) A poll of teenagers, students and soldiers conducted in 2008 by the Massuah Institute for the Study of the Holocaust finds that 82% of Israel’s youth believe another Holocaust can occur.
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12/30/2008
The International Year of Astronomy is Almost Here! (Universe Today)
January 1 of 2009 brings with it the International Year of Astronomy, a worldwide celebration commemorating Galileo Galilei's first astronomical observation through a telescope. 135 nations are collaborating to promote astronomy and its contribution to society and culture, with events at regional, national, and global levels, to bring the Universe closer to more people on [...]
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01/04/2009
Review (Tacoma News Tribune)
‘Bible Illuminated’ looks like fashion magazine If God made man in his own image, then does God look anything like Arnold Schwarzenegger? That’s a question you might mull over when you come across a picture of a much younger, topless governator flexing in the pages of a glossy edition of the New Testament called “Bible Illuminated: The Book.”
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