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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Richnorth who wrote (20927)	12/26/2002 9:33:59 PM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

No evidence yet against Iraq, says Russia Moscow challenges claims by Washington and London that Baghdad possesses banned weapons and is a terrorist threat MOSCOW - Russia has criticised the United States and Britain, saying that no evidence had yet been produced to support their contention that Iraq is a terrorist threat. 'No one provided the slightest evidence that Iraq represented such a threat,' Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Yury Fedotov was quoted by Itar-Tass news agency as saying. That was a direct challenge to claims by the US and Britain of proof that Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction, a claim Baghdad vehemently denies. Russia, one of the five permanent Security Council members with veto power, opposes unilateral US military intervention against Iraq. Washington, also a permanent council member, has threatened such action if Baghdad should prove to be in material breach of UN Security Council Resolution 1441 mandating its complete renunciation of weapons of mass destruction, a claim it has already made. The other three permanent council members are France and China, and Washington's closest ally against Iraq, Britain. Meanwhile, Syria, the only Arab state on the 15-member council, dismissed as 'ridiculous' and 'unfounded' accusations by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that Iraq had transferred weapons of mass destruction to Syrian soil. Mr Sharon said UN inspectors in Iraq were less likely to find anything than they might have previously because the weapons were being hidden in Syria. But a Foreign Ministry spokesman said in Damascus: 'Sharon's allegations are unfounded and aim to divert attention from the chemical, nuclear and biological arsenal that Israel possesses. 'The accusations are ridiculous, especially since Syria has signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and called along with the other Arab countries for the Middle East to be freed from all weapons of mass destruction,' he said. In Iraq on Christmas Day, it was business as usual for UN inspectors, with five teams from the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNmovic) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) scouring Iraqi territory. In Baghdad, President Saddam Hussein told his people in a broadcast he was confident Iraq would be cleared by the inspectors. The outcome of the UN operations 'will be a big shock to the United States and will expose all American lies', he said. He also repeated the allegation that Washington was really after Iraq's oil. 'It is in this context the American-Zionist campaign against Iraq is being launched, while the tone of a threatened, large-scale military aggression against our peace-loving people is growing louder,' he said. --AFP

To: Richnorth who wrote (20927)	12/27/2002 7:36:00 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27666

have you noticed that foreign/immigrant students consistently beat the local students year in year out I believe that has to do with the curriculum and is no different in the US. In North America, "real" education is left to university and there is only some very superficial mathematics & science in high school. I was amazed at just how easy the math questions were in the GMAT exams for MBA candidates. You could do well armed with basic arithmetic, and the knowledge that the sum of a triangle's inner angles is 180 degrees. In some other countries, especially in Asia, high school curriculum is far more comprehensive and the university studies are lighter. At the age of 18, these students solve higher mathematics problems and have already completed some serious physics/bio/chem classes, including electromagnetics & organic chemistry. So when they come to North America for university studies, they are ahead in math & science. It is just due to their demanding high school curriculum.