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The hagfish, a 500-million-year-old spineless creature with snake-like features, lives at the bottom of the ocean
floor. Its unique glands constantly produce a thick slime that serves to protect it; the slime is shed daily. Research
scientists have now developed a high-density silk from the slime that will potentially be used in athletic wear and
bullet-proof clothing.
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Approximately ,450 dock workers at Hong Kong International Terminal port have
successfully halted the trade operations for six days. HIT is the third-largest port in
the world and the union workers’ strike is costing the company 5 million Hong Kong
dollars ($644,000) in daily losses. Workers plan to strike until their demand for a 20-
30 percent salary increase is met.
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Obama visits Israel and speaks of peace in the Middle East
BY CHRISTIANNA VAN DALSEN
Staff Writer
During the 2012 election, Hussein Ibish of the American
Task Force on Palestine described the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict as "an issue (that has) fallen off the map of U.S.
foreign policy attention."
Recently however. President Barack Obama made his first
trip as president to Israel where he highlighted the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict and revealed his new plan for resolution
in the region.
Originally, Obama's administration approached the issue
by asking the Israeli government to cease the development of
Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. They
had hoped this would persuade Palestinians to settle on a
peace agreement, but because Israel did not halt their building
in the occupied regions, Palestine remained unappeased.
"Think about this issue in terms of pizza," said Director
of the Friends Center and Campus Ministry Coordinator
Max Carter, paraphrasing American-born Palestinian Sam
Bahour's analogy for the conflict. "Israel and Palestine sit
down over a pizza, and they're trying to decide how to divide
it up. As they begin, Israel keeps taking slices while Palestine
is ttying to figure out which pieces he can ask for. Where the
conflict is right now, they're trying to negotiate the 22 percent
of the pizza left for Palestine after the Partition Plan of 1947
and the war that followed."
The various debates over land, ownership and religion
have aroused war, terrorist attacks and military occupation
for decades.
"No single step is going to erase years of history and
propaganda," said Obama during his speech to the Israeli
public at the Jerusalem International Convention Center. "But
progress with the Palestinians is a powerful way to begin... It
will make a difference."
The Obama administration hopes to cultivate peace
between Israel and Palestine by revitalizing support for the
two-state solution.
"Obama reiterated in his Israel speech what he said in
"No single step is going to erase years of
history and propaganda. But progress with
the Palestinians is a powerful way to begin
... It will make a difference."
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his 2009 Cairo speech," said Guy Ziv, professor at American
University s School of International Service and director of
the Israel National Security Project, to The Guilfordian. "The
two-state solution is the goal here, and it is important to
work toward the establishment of a viable and independent
Palestinian state that will live side by side with the state of
Israel."
Many of the Israelis remain skeptical of the possibility of
resolution between the long-warring Middle Eastern states.
"The question is whether there can be real peace here,"
Hebrew University student Tzachi Shickman told the
Washington Post. "A Palestinian state could bring more
attacks on us."
To quell these concerns, Obama assured more funding
for Israel's anti-missile defense systems and reaffirmed his
promise to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
Obama restated the United States' commitment to Israel's
national security several times throughout his speech, and
his use of Hebrew phrases meaning "you are not alone" and
it s good to be back in the land" left some Israelis singing
his praises. °
"The president captured the hearts of the Israeli people,"
said Major General Amos Yadlin, former head of the Israeli
Defense Force s Military Intelligence Directorate and current
head of the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security
Studies to CNN. ^
Obama used his trip as an opportunity to rebuild his
relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after
several years of distance caused by Netanyahu's bypass of
the president, followed by the prime minister's meeting with
the U.S. Congress to undermine Obama's 2011 appeal to
the Middle East. During Obama's recent trip, the two were
seen amicably meeting several times, visiting the sites and
laughing together.
While Obama s message of an Israeli-Palestinian peace
process was well-received by the Israeli people, recognition
was given to the difficult work that must be done by both
Israel and Palestine in achieving this goal.