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The other Barak speaks out

Aharon Barak, center, president of the Supreme Court of Israel, received an honorary degree from the University of Hartford, Oct. 14, 2001.A Talmudic teaching regarding

Slicing the technology transfer pie

Israeli universities such as the Technion are trying to capture more royalties from products created from their research.Last summer, Jerusalem-based Mindset Biopharmaceuticals added a researcher

Volunteers saving children’s hearts

The 75 volunteers of Save A Child’s Heart have treated more than 700 needy children from Third World countries. (Photo credit: SACH)The children come from

Sweet approach to drug development

Promoters say drugs based on glycans, or sugars, can increase the success rate of pharmaceutical development.A shopping center in a leafy, detached-home community in central

A demonstrated advantage

A new study says women are best at preparing for bioterror.For men, the best bet to survive a biochemical terrorist attack is to give their

Al-Jazeera no beacon of press freedom

The TV network’s reputation for candor is belied by its own set of compromises.Qatari diplomats are accustomed to receiving protests about al-Jazeera, their quirky in-house

Security firms tackling business boom

Some Israeli firms have a head start in the expanding market for solutions to security problems, but competition will be fierce, observers say.Spread out in