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The text was prepared by the Arab Affairs Committee of Egypt's People's Assembly (lower house) and is largely symbolic. Only the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) can make such decisions, and has already ruled it out. Until presidential elections are held, the SCAF remains in charge of policy-making."

The groups which signed the motion, the Salafists and the Muslim Brotherhood, are populist groups, which means that they have the popular support of the supermajority of the Egyptian people.

An AP poll done last year shows that at least half of all Egyptians want to cancel the peace treaty with Israel (in other words, it means that they want to go to war).

The Arab Winter continues. Stay tuned.

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“[T]he 2012 presidential election is effectively over right now,” suggests political science professor Thomas Schaller in a provocative new Salon column this week. Despite the twists and turns of the GOP primary, he argues, “All of the available data indicate that Romney will be the Republican nominee by end of spring, and Barack Obama will be the victor come fall.” So what is at stake in the GOP primary in Schaller’s eyes? The identity and future prospects of the Republican party.

Schaller’s latest Baltimore Sun column focuses on Rush Limbaugh’s remarks about Sandra Fluke and his later apology to her, following the loss of several show sponsors. Schaller writes, “What the talk show host should apologize for is his obvious and rather profound ignorance about contraception.”

It’s been a busy week in the media for Donald Norris, UMBC public policy chair and director of the Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research. Norris offered expert comments for four articles on public policy in Maryland, focusing on current debates in the state legislature.

In “Some State Agencies Want More of Your Money,” Norris explains that proposed state fee increases face an uphill battle as “[p]aying anything for government goods and services has become conflated with taxes.” Norris argues that alternative doomsday budget plans based on severe cuts are unlikely to pass in another Sun article, later suggesting in the Gazette that it is more likely Maryland will gradually shift the cost of teacher pensions onto local jurisdictions to close the state’s budget gap.

Finally, Norris commented in the Sun on the indictment of Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold on corruption charges, stating: “It’s going to affect absolutely everything he says and does…When he tries to stay in office and wait for a trial, during that period of time, county government is going to be on trial.”

Courtesy of ideachampions.com

Today is Albert Einstein’s birthday and Pi =(3.1415926535…) day one of the most famous days named after a mathematical constant! As we remember this genius scientist and humanist responsible for the development of theory of relativity, photoelectric effect and Brownian motion.

But there is also the odd story about his famous brain.

Seven hours about an autopsy was performed on Albert Einstein, his brain was surgically removed Thomas Stoltz Harvey, a pathologist who took it without permission.

Mr. Harvey wanted to study Einstein’s brain to see why he was such a genius, but lacked the ability to research it extensively. He took pictures of the brain and then dissected it into 240 blocks, which he put into mason jars.

A few months later, Mr. Harvey was fired from Princeton Hospital because he wouldn’t share the brain. He kept it, took it with him and overtime gave small brain bits to researchers. Finally, he brought what was left of the brain to Dr. Elliot Krauss at Princeton Hospital in 1996, where the fragments remain today.

Five other quick facts about Albert Einstein:

1. In 1952, shortly after the death of Israel’s first president, Einstein was offered the job. He declined. In the letter he wrote to the diplomat who offered him the job, one reason he gave was that he wouldn’t be good at working with people.

2. When Einstein wanted to divorce his first wife, Mileva Maric, he told her he would win the Nobel Prize one day and give her his future winnings if she’d grant him a divorce. Maric accepted, but had to wait three years for the prize money.

3. As a child, Einstein didn’t start talking until he was 3 years old. He continued to have trouble speaking through elementary school, and was still not completely fluent in his own language as a 9-year-old.

4. Einstein’s second wife, Elsa Einstein, was also his first cousin.

5. One of Einstein’s earliest inspirations was a compass. When given one at age 5, he became transfixed by the needle and wondered what gave it the ability to always swing in the right direction.

More on his brain:

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2009/04/17-01.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57330609/parts-of-einsteins-brain-on-display-for-first-time/

More about Pi day

http://www.piday.org/

Courtesy of  www.govloop.com

Virginia Tech has been found liable in the 2007 shooting rampage at the university that left 33 dead. After three and a half hours of deliberation, the jury determined that VA Tech officials’ delayed response to the shootings was an act of negligence.

Although the massacre occurred five years ago, its infamy persists. It is, to date, the deadliest school shooting on record in U.S. history.

Can schools across the nation prevent another tragedy from replacing it?