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Fondi per ricerca: per Napolitano servono più fatti e meno parole

napolitano21“Per uscire dalla crisi in condizioni migliori è fondamentale investire in innovazione e ricerca” perché su questo terreno “si giocherà il nostro futuro”. E’ necessario quindi che si registri la necessaria unità delle forze politiche in modo che possano affluire risorse pubbliche e private in questo campo. Evitando che, sui finanziamenti alla ricerca, ci sia “troppa differenza tra parole e fatti”. Lo afferma il presidente della Repubblica, Giorgio Napolitano, nel corso dell’inaugurazione del Continua a leggere… »


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Italiani: secondo l’Istat navigano di più sul web e tra i giovani dilaga la lettura

images_auto_siti_webGli italiani hanno superato il ‘muro’ dei 60 milioni di abitanti esclusivamente per via degli immigrati, rimangono fedeli al pranzo consumato entro le mura domestiche, si misurano ogni giorno con le difficoltà di accesso ai servizi di pubblica utilità (54,7% denuncia problemi legati al pronto soccorso, il 38,5% con le forze dell’ordine), non si fanno mancare spettacoli e intrattenimenti fuori casa (quasi due terzi della popolazione dichiara di averne fruito almeno una volta), guardano con crescente interesse a Internet (47,5%), trascurano i giornali ma non abbandonano i libri (esiste uno zoccolo duro del 64,7% di giovani tra gli 11 e i 14 anni che dichiara di leggere libri nel tempo libero). Si lamentano fortemente delle Continua a leggere… »



World News

Thank you, Eli Yishai, for exposing the peace process masquerade

Here's someone new to blame for everything: Eli Yishai. After all, Benjamin Netanyahu wanted it so much, Ehud Barak pressed so hard, Shimon Peres wielded so much influence - and along came the interior minister and ruined everything. ...
mar  10
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alle 05:27
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from Haaretz.com - Opinion

World News

A home or a tombstone

Last week, at an event at the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds, hundreds of young people joined a new "purchasing group" set to build high-rise apartment buildings in that city. Meanwhile, in Jerusalem, a storm was brewing over a plan to demolish homes in Silwan. Ostensibly, these are the two extremes of Isr...
mar  10
11
alle 03:48
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from Haaretz.com - Opinion

World News

From ‘Ajami’ to ‘Beaufort’

Just hours before Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony, Scandar Copti, one of the co-directors of "Ajami," announced that the film does not represent Israel. At around the same time, MK Jamal Zahalka was taking part in an Israeli Apartheid Week event at McGill University in Montreal, pouring oil on t...
mar  10
11
alle 03:47
da Haaretz.com - Opinion
from Haaretz.com - Opinion

World News

Thank you, Eli Yishai

Here's someone new to blame for everything: Eli Yishai. After all, Benjamin Netanyahu wanted it so much, Ehud Barak pressed so hard, Shimon Peres wielded so much influence - and along came the interior minister and ruined everything. ...
mar  10
11
alle 03:43
da Haaretz.com - Opinion
from Haaretz.com - Opinion

World News

Broken glass

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu handed U.S. Vice President Joe Biden broken glass. Netanyahu had not intended to do so, of course. He wanted to give Biden a tree-planting certificate in honor of Biden's mother. But his need to lean on the podium while addressing his guest caused the certificate...
mar  10
11
alle 03:41
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from Haaretz.com - Opinion

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The PM is failing in his duties

The government once again made a foolhardy, unnecessary and damaging mistake, with the announcement that the Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee has given the go-ahead to build 1,600 new housing units in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood, which sits beyond the Green Line, on the same d...
mar  10
11
alle 03:40
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from Haaretz.com - Opinion

World Blogs

Why Hollywood Tells Troubled Stories About Blacks

Why do all the films about African-Americans tell the same troubled stories?


mar  10
11
alle 02:20
da Newsweek Top News
from Newsweek Top News

World Blogs

How Expensive Will The Obama Health Care Plan Really Be?

The bogus Republican claim that Obamacare is a government takeover of one-sixth of the economy.


mar  10
11
alle 01:36
da Newsweek Top News
from Newsweek Top News

World Finances, World News

Op-Ed Contributor: For Iraqi Voters, a Dizzying Democracy

In Baghdad, politics are much more confused than they were in the 2005 election. And that’s good news.
mar  10
11
alle 12:26
da By Bartle Breese Bull
from NYT > Opinion

World Finances, World News

Op-Ed Columnist: Gone, Solid Gone

At heart, Barack Obama is not an Atlanticist but a member of the post-Western world. Europe needs to get over America and discover itself.
mar  10
11
alle 12:22
da By ROGER COHEN
from NYT > Opinion