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…fly once before, when he received Syrian chief-of- staff Hikmat Shehabi and me after our Blair House talks in 1994. But the Sharm conference provided my first opportunity to spend time with him face-to-face. When Peres and our delegation were about to leave, a Clinton aide approa...

/ BARAK / 17 the deal was due to begin in early November, but he kept putting off a vote in the cabinet. When the vote came, on November 11, Bibi squeaked through by a margin of 8 to 4, but with five abstentions. That meant less than half of his ministers had voted for it. The...

119 almost all the FBI files there. The conspirators escaped and kept their identities secret for over 42 years. Self-definitions also do necessarily produce a distinction between whistle-blowers and conventional spies. Consider, for example Philip Agee. Agee left the CIA in 19...

Now I'll try to pull this together. Stock prices collectively, meaning all shares at current prices, is called “market cap.” (Cap is capitalization.) Market cap does not measure the whole underlying value of the issuers, meaning firms that issued the stock, since there are debt c...

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an artistic way if he wants to communicate his research. He obviously wants to communicate and talk to others. A scientist invents new objects, and the question is how to describe them. In all of these aspects, science is not very different from art. When I asked him how he defi...

… of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. — VIDA D. SCUDDER, The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets CC eating a product is not complicated. “Create” sounds more involved than it actually is. If the idea is a...

With negotiations frozen, the Palestinians turned to unilateral measures: seeking a United Nations vote admitting the State of Palestine to membership and getting dozens of countries to recognize a Palestinian state. Meanwhile, their delegitimization campaign against Israel conti...

… Minister. But fewer and fewer Israelis were enthusiastic about four more years of Bibi. But I also was keen to convey the substance of what my premiership would be about. Domestically, I spoke of the need to narrow gaps in education and opportunity — particularly, though not on...

Already some baby boomers are able to remotely lock their parents’ doors, track calls coming into their homes and even see who is ringing the doorbell, in many cases right from their smart phones. Systems such as QuietCare, WellAWARE, FineThanx and SimplyHome are already fixtures...

approximately correct. The other is a fair, data-driven assessment of public norms, policy, and government, based on trusted data about current conditions. This second thread depends on availability of trusted data and so is just beginning to be developed. Trusted data and data-d...

/ BARAK / 43 sayeret deputy, my chief of staff. The negotiating team also included Uri Saguy, former head of military intelligence; Gilad Sher, a gifted lawyer I'd known for a quarter of a century and who had been a company commander in my armored brigade in the 1970s; and Amnon...

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… Bertagna, GTX Corp. - 10/26/2010 - Global Positioning System (GPS) is a worldwide radio-navigation system formed from the constellation of 24 satellites and their ground stations. The Global Positioning System is mainly funded and controlled by the U.S Department of Defense (DO...

…me things I’ve written. Here’s my (only slightly out of date) professional web presence, including Letterman clip: www.thedylaniove.com Here are a few stories I've written more recently that are not displayed on my site: https:/Avww.inverse.com/article/33173-virtual-reality-ps...