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Barbecue, competition enliven Wounded Warrior recuperation

By Matt Quijas CAMP PENDLETON, California–Marines and sailors stationed here are devoting this week to honoring service members injured in combat from all over the world; this is a great opportunity for them to showcase their new facility for Wounded Warriors. An international assemblage of Wounded Warriors gathered Feb.13 to kick off this year’s Marine […]

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University of Haifa to accept Cal State University students from all campuses on ‘study abroad’ programs

HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — Almost a decade after suspending its study abroad opportunities for students wanting to study in Israel, California State University has reinstated the program and chosen the University of Haifa as its location of its study abroad students in Israel. The Cal State Study Abroad Program is being reinstated in Israel

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Nobel-prize-winning discoverer of quasi-crystals casts doubt on scientific orthodoxy

By Rabbi Avi Shafran © 2011 AMI MAGAZINE JERUSALEM — The latest Nobel Prize for chemistry was awarded last month to Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman for his discovery of “quasicrystals.” In the 1980s, the Israeli chemist noticed something peculiar as he examined a glowing hot metal he had cooled. The diffraction pattern that formed in

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