The candidates for Egypt's first free presidential elections in decades are set, the deadline having expired at 2 p.m. Cairo time on Sunday, and the final list is a microcosm of the current political and social divisions in post-revolution Egypt. The field has narrowed from some 1,500 applicants to a final 10 candidates and, as in Egypt as a whole, the election will be a battle between reformists and ideologues, conservatives and revolutionaries. Below are the five candidates currently leading the pack ahead of the vote on May 23 and 24. Читать дальше...
Tennis Now's Ted LePak reports on location, at the 2012 US Men's Clay Court Championship. This edition of our news show, we outline the tournaments this week in Houston, Casablanca, Barcelona, and Copenhagen. Be sure to check out our Tennis Now Magazine's Clay Court Edition now available here: http://www.tennisnow.com/Magazine.aspx
In 1999, a young woman in Colorado named Shonnie Medina died of breast cancer. Tests revealed that she carried a gene mutation commonly associated with Jews—yet Medina was a Hispano, meaning that her ancestry was both Native American and Spanish, with no known Jewish background. Other family members similarly turned out to be carriers of […]
As India takes small steps toward overhauling its lumbering higher-education system, U.S. colleges and universities want a part of the action. Until now, U.S. involvement in the Indian higher-education system has been limited to a largely advisory role. But now a new chapter is being written and the authors are the Obama and Singh administrations.
Once, most British chaps wouldn't be seen dead carrying a tote or a sleek satchel. How things have changed...
