I fjol utlyste Israel anbudsförfaranden för byggen av 4 485 bostäder i bosättningar på ockuperad palestinsk mark, jämfört med 3 710 bostäder föregående år, uppger den israeliska fredsorganisationen Fred nu. Organisationen uppger att det är det högsta antalet på minst ett decennium.

I fjol utlyste Israel anbudsförfaranden för byggen av 4 485 bostäder i bosättningar på ockuperad palestinsk mark, jämfört med 3 710 bostäder föregående år, uppger den israeliska fredsorganisationen Fred nu. Organisationen uppger att det är det högsta antalet på minst ett decennium.

En amerikansk marinkårssoldat dömdes i dag för att två gånger ha deserterat från sitt förband. Enligt åklagarna var den nu 35-årige korpralen Wassef Ali Hassoun desillusionerad och längtade dessutom tillbaka till sitt hemland Libanon.

En amerikansk marinkårssoldat dömdes i dag för att två gånger ha deserterat från sitt förband. Enligt åklagarna var den nu 35-årige korpralen Wassef Ali Hassoun desillusionerad och längtade dessutom tillbaka till sitt hemland Libanon.

merbs writes When we feel sick, fear disease, or have questions about our health, we turn first to the internet. According to the Pew Internet Project, 72 percent of US internet users look up health-related information online. But an astonishing number of the pages we visit to learn about private health concerns—confidentially, we assume—are tracking our queries, sending the sensitive data to third party corporations, even shipping the information directly to the same brokers who monitor our credit scores.

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schwit1 writes Compared to other recreational drugs — including alcohol — marijuana may be even safer than previously thought. And researchers may be systematically underestimating risks associated with alcohol use. They found that at the level of individual use, alcohol was the deadliest substance, followed by heroin and cocaine.

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Adobe’s seminal Photoshop app is now 25 years old, and Farhad Manjoo of the New York Times looks at how Adobe is trying to keep it relevant. Adobe’s switch from selling Photoshop to offering it as a monthly subscription is one way the company hopes to bring it to more people, though so far, it has led to lower revenues. Adobe is also planning to split Photoshop into a number of smaller apps. Regardless of how Adobe’s plans pan out, photographers will never return to the darkrooms that Photoshop replaced.

 

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