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| Tackling Poverty |
 IT is tempting to wonder how much
of an appetite Barack Obama will
have for dinner on Thursday
evening (17May). That afternoon,
ahead of the two-day meeting of
the G8 at Camp David, which kicks off
on Friday, he will announce what is currently
being called "the new alliance to
increase food security and nutrition"... |
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| A MARKET
SOCIETY |
 PORING through Harvard
philosopher Michael
Sandel's new book, What
Money Can't Buy: The
Moral Limits of
Markets, I found myself over
and over again turning pages
and saying, "I had no idea."
I had no idea that in the year
2000, as Sandel notes, "a
Russian ... |
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 | Emir to grace GCC summit today THE Emir His Highness
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al
Thani will travel to Saudi
Arabia to attend the 14th GCC
Consultative Summit on
Monday.
HH the Emir will be accompanied
by Prime Minister and
Minister of Foreign Affairs
HE Sheikh Hamad bin
Jassim ...
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| | Al Fakhoora completes first
phase of IUG reconstruction |  AL FAKHOORA, an initiative
of Qatar Foundation for
helping the cause of education
and health in Gaza, has
completed the first phase of
reconstruction of the Islamic
University of Gaza (IUG).
This will enable the university´s
faculty of medicine
with two additional floors
that include rooms for workshop,
a medical library, clinical
and nursing skill labs,
telepathology and histopathology
labs, a pathology
museum and optics labs.
Farooq Burney, director of
Al Fakhoora, who attended
the inauguration programme
in Gaza, met with staff members
and students at IUG.
"A few months ago, we
awarded 11 students with the
Furkan Doughan scholarship
for medicine... | | | Mashreq Qatar updates students
on banking sector, career growth |  MASHREQ Qatar, a leading
financial institution in the
region, engaged with students
of the Commercial
Independent Secondary
School in a series of career
development programmes
recently.
The programme was
organised as part of Mashreq
Qatar´s commitment
towards the human development
pillar of Qatar National
Vision 2030.
The programme, which
was conducted over a period
of three weeks, included orientation
briefings on
Mashreq Qatar´s departments,
including human
resources, Mashreq
Learning Systems, operations,
corporate & investment
banking, retail banking
and compliance, among
others.
The students also had
... | | | Top surgeon to perform ´Ross´
procedure in Doha today |
 LEADING transplant surgeon
Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub, who is
widely considered to be one of the
most experienced practitioners of the
Ross procedure (pulmonary autograft)
in the world, will for the first
time perform the procedure in Qatar
on Monday.
He will join a team of paediatric cardiac
surgeons from the Hamad
Medical Corporation (HMC) to operate
on a 12-year-old Yemeni patient at
the HMC´s Heart Hospital.
The operation entails replacing a
person´s diseased aortic valve with
their own pulmonary valve, and in
turn replacing that pulmonary valve
with a homograft (a valve taken from
a donor). It is considered the operation
of choice in treating ... | |
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