Jan 8 2009

Israeli & Palestinian Doctors Work Together To Save A Child

For over ten years, Save a Child’s Heart has performing life-saving heart surgery on children from all over the world – not just the West Bank and Gaza, but from African countries, eastern Europe, Russia, Ukraine, even Vietnam and China. Its doctors have treated more than 2000 children.

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Jan 5 2009

China Launches Crackdown on Internet Pornography

China launched a major crackdown on Internet pornography Monday targeting popular online portals and major search engines such as Google.

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Jan 4 2009

Obama Moves To Link Pentagon With NASA

Amiga Trombone sends this quote from the beginning of a story at Bloomberg: “President-elect Barack Obama will probably tear down long-standing barriers between the US’s civilian and military space programs to speed up a mission to the moon amid the prospect of a new space race with China. Obama’s transition team is considering a collaboration between the Defense Department and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration because military rockets may be cheaper and ready sooner than the space agency’s planned launch vehicle, which isn’t slated to fly until 2015, according to people who’ve discussed the idea with the Obama team.”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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