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David Rubinger bought his first Leica camera in 1946 for 200 cigarettes and a can of coffee. For a poor Jewish soldier in the British army, that was a fortune. But today, Israel is certainly the richer for it: Rubinger has focused his compassionate eye on the human dramas and towering personalities that have shaped Israel's 60 years since independence. His photos, many of them shot on assignment for TIME, do not just record Israel's history; they capture the myriad facets of Jewish identity...
...computer screen, Rubinger clicks back to earlier photos from Israel's painful birth: a joyous swarm of men waving an Israeli flag on top of a British armored vehicle after the U.N. has announced its decision to set up a Jewish state; a fiercely beautiful Israeli woman soldier throwing a grenade; poor Moroccan migrants as they glimpse Israel from a ship's deck; a gaunt refugee bringing home live chickens for the Sabbath meal; David Ben-Gurion looking like a defiant Moses. Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Dayan, Golda Meir, Ariel Sharon - Rubinger photographed them all in unguarded moments, stripped...
...Jeopardy Kid, this prestigious Yale graduate is widely acknowledged to be America’s first spy who was found out by British soldiers in New York in 1776 having betrayed his true identity while at a tavern within twenty four hours of his deployment...
...need to rely on just peer reviews.” The program is still in test phases and is expected to be released in June, according to John G. Boucher, a project manager for CrossRef. CrossCheck was tested last fall with eight publishers, according to the Chronicle, including the British Medical Journal Group, Elsevier, and Wiley-Blackwell. During the test, the full text of millions of proprietary articles were scanned and indexed into CrossCheck. The program also features over nine billion articles from current and archived Internet content. “The publishers were very enthusiastic,” Povejsil...
...Zimbabwean independence by aiming his wrath against Britain, the former colonial power, whose bidding he accuses the opposition of doing. "Down with thieves who want to steal our country," he thundered, in his first speech since the elections, calling on Zimbabweans to be vigilant "in the face of vicious British machinations and the machinations of our other detractors, who are the allies of Britain...