A woman’s biological clock starts as they age, but what may be surprising is it begins ticking in her late 20’s, not her mid 30’s. You see unlike men, women are born with a finite number of eggs, around one million. Then at puberty that number has surprisingly dwindled to around 400,000 and subsequently each [...]
What Is A Woman’s Natural Biological Clock? – OpEd
↧
↧
Peace And Watermelons: US-Israeli Riddle – OpEd
One of the most interesting and prolonged private debates I have had in my life was with the brilliant Dr. Nahum Goldmann. The subject: American peace initiatives. It was an unequal debate, of course. Goldmann was my elder by 28 years. While I was a mere editor of an Israeli news magazine, he was an [...]
↧
Crisis In Mali Disrupting Schooling Of 700,000 Children
The education of some 700,000 children in Mali has been disrupted due to the violence in the country, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said today, adding that there is an urgent need to rebuild schools, train teachers and provide learning supplies. Northern Mali has been occupied by radical Islamists after fighting broke out in [...]
↧
Website Latency Study Highlights Differences In Response Times During Recent DDoS Attacks Against Two Banks
Prolexic, a leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, today released results of a website performance case study that documented variations in load times during live DDoS attacks. The study tracked performance of two financial institutions; one website had average website load times of two seconds or less, while the other experienced multiple [...]
↧
NATO Secretary General Pledges New Afghan Mission Post-2014
By Karen Parrish The NATO secretary general today pledged “a new and different NATO-led mission after 2014” in Afghanistan. Anders Fogh Rasmussen spoke to open the session of NATO and non-NATO troop-contributing nations here on the last day of a two-day NATO defense ministers meeting. The International Security Assistance Force mission in Afghanistan will end [...]
↧
↧
Port Said Unites Key Egyptian Government Critics: Workers And Soccer Fans – Analysis
Egyptian troops were protecting factories and government offices on the fifth day of a general strike in the Suez Canal city of Port Said that has brought together two groups with working class roots that played key roles in the toppling of former president Hosni Mubarak: militant, highly politicized, street-battled hardened soccer fans and the [...]
↧
Reactions Stream In On Pistorius Bail Decision
By Peter Cox An audible sigh of relief went up in the courtroom when the Chief Magistrate announced that South African Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius could be released on bail. For Pistorius’ friends and family, it was a brief moment of celebration. Since the bail hearing in his murder case started on Tuesday, famed double [...]
↧
Pakistan-US Relations: A Brief Overview
The independence of Pakistan brought the subcontinent on the verge of new challenges. Being a newly born state, Pakistan was prone to multiple internal and external challenges including foreign policy vis-à-vis major powers. The choice for the time was limited in nature i.e. USSR and USA. The history of Pak-US relations dates back to 20 [...]
↧
Irish Minister For Agriculture Calls For Significant Progress On Key CAP Reform Issues
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney TD, will chair the second meeting of the Agrifish Council under the Irish Presidency on Monday 25th and Tuesday 26th February. In the agriculture area, Ministers will discuss Presidency proposals aimed at reaching agreement on how direct payments are to be distributed within Member States. [...]
↧
↧
U.S. Joins Lawsuit Against Lance Armstrong
The Department of Justice announced Friday that the government has joined a civil lawsuit alleging that Lance Armstrong, Johan Bruyneel and Tailwind Sports LLC and Tailwind Sports Corporation (Tailwind) submitted or caused the submission of false claims to the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) in connection with its sponsorship of a professional bicycle racing team by [...]
↧
Radioactive Leaks Detected At Waste Site In Northwest US
Six underground nuclear tanks in Washington State are leaking radioactive waste, the state’s government announced on Friday, describing the development as “disturbing.” The leak at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation has so far not posed an immediate health risk to the public, Governor Jay Inslee’s office said. But it had not been stopped. Established in 1943 [...]
↧
Israel Instructs Obama: “Iranian And Syrian Sanctions Are Not Painful Enough!” – OpEd
On 3/26/2013 Iran is expected to meet with other world powers in Astana, Kazakhstan to discuss its nuclear program. Discussions that the occupiers of Palestine fervently hope will not be successful. It is toward this end that their key demand this week to the US Congress, the White House and the European Union is “to [...]
↧
UK Students Demand Human Rights For Camp Liberty Prisoners
Thursday saw the launch of the Ashraf Campaign (ASHCAM), a new student-led humanitarian initiative, at the University of York. The official launch event, which was attended by dozens of students and locals, sought to raise awareness of the more than 3,000 Iranian refugees currently imprisoned at a concentration camp, Camp Liberty, in Iraq. Attendees were [...]
↧
↧
Syria: Activist Dies In Jail, Second Feared Dead
A peaceful activist who had been helping local committees deliver aid died in detention in Syria on February 16, 2013. A second detainee died in detention in November, a released detainee recently told his family. The reported deaths highlight the urgent need for the UN Security Council to require the authorities in Syria to grant [...]
↧
Tunisia Names Hardline Islamist As New PM
Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki on Friday asked Interior Minister Ali Larayedh, a hardliner from the main Islamist Ennahda party, to form a government within two weeks, his spokesman said. Marzouki’s spokesman told a news conference Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi had formally nominated Larayedh to succeed outgoing Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, who resigned on Tuesday. Ennahda [...]
↧
Ralph Nader: Perils Of The Keystone XL Pipeline Confront Obama – OpEd
Bill McKibben, a prolific writer and organizer on global warming and climate change, has had a busy year teaching environmentalists not to despair and will soon be learning some lessons himself. In August 2011, he organized an unprecedented demonstration in front of the White House urging President Obama to deny a permit for the giant [...]
↧
Cyclone Haruna Makes Landfall In Madagascar
Haruna’s center made landfall near Manombo, Madagascar around 0600 UTC (1 a.m. EST/U.S.) The METEO-7 satellite captured a visible image of Haruna at the time of landfall and showed that its eye had already become cloud-filled. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured a visible image of Tropical Storm Haruna [...]
↧
↧
US, Allies Consider Leaving Up To 12,000 Troops In Afghanistan
By Luis Ramirez U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says NATO allies are considering leaving between 8,000 and 12,000 international troops in Afghanistan after 2014. The force would be left to help Afghans maintain stability in the country after most international troops pull out by the end of 2014. The U.S. has said it has made [...]
↧
Medvedev Paints Gloomy Picture Of US Missile Defense Dispute
Despite the general progress in Russian-US relations, Russia and the West could face a serious crisis if the sides fail to resolve the standoff over the deployment of a US missile shield in Europe, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said. In an interview with the Cuban media, published on Saturday, Medvedev said he was satisfied [...]
↧
Egypt’s Morsi Confirms Parliamentary Elections To Begin In April
Elections for Egypt’s lower house of parliament, the House of Representatives, will begin in April and take place over four stages with the House finally convening in July. President Mohamed Morsi formally announced the elections Thursday night after Shura Council Speaker Ahmed Fahmy presented him with the elections law passed by the upper house of [...]
↧
More Pages to Explore .....
