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نام سارا خوش جمال تکواندو کار 19 ساله ایرانی درمیان 100 شانس برتر المپیک 2008 پکن

مجله تایم در حالی نام سارا خوش جمال تکواندو کار 19 ساله ایرانی را درمیان 100 ورزشکار برتر المپیک 2008 پکن جا داده و در مورد او نوشته ، که چند روز پیش کمیته ملی المپیک اسامی نهایی ورزشکاران اعزامی ایران به بازیهای المپیک 2008 پکن را اعلام کرد اما دراین فهرست ، نام سارا خوش جمال فکری نماینده بانوان تکواندوکار ایران در المپیک پکن که با اقتدار سهمیه حضور دراین بازیها را کسب کرده دیده نمی شود ! تایم در توضیحاتش با اشاره به وضعیت پوشش ورزشکاران زن ایرانی به دلیل وجود حکومت اسلامی ، به محبوبیت ورزش تکواندو درمیان دختران ایرانی اشاره کرده و اینکه اکنون حدود 120000 زن و دختر ایرانی به این ورزش می پردازند . این مجله همچنین با اشاره به پیروزی 3 ماه پیش خوش جمال درمقابل قهرمان شماره یک جهان و کسب سهمیه المپیک ، به وضعیت تمرینات او هم اشاره کرده و نوشته سارا چون نمی تواند با مردها تمرین کند ، در خانه با برادرانش به تمریناتش ادامه می دهد.

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Taekwondo
Iran
Age: 19

Khoshjamal is the Iranian female heroine of the moment after qualifying for Beijing in Taekwondo. In keeping with Iran"s conservative religious rules, Khoshjamal trains and competes wearing a headscarf and a protective helmet and is the first Iranian woman to qualify for the Olympics. Iranian qirls are cheering her on; huge posters of Khoshjamal adorn the Tae kwon do Federation, a popular sport for Iranian females practiced by more than 120,000 girls. Khoshjamal, who in line with traditions is prohibited from training with men, trains in her living room with her older brothers. Last March in Vietnam she beat the world"s No. 1, securing her cherished ticket to China.

مسلمان آمریكایی ریش را به شغلش ترجیح داد!

در واشینگتن در ایالات متحده زید كه یك افسر پلیس بوده پس از اینكه دستور مقام ارشدش را برای اصلاح كردن ریش خود قبول نكرده از كار اخراج شده است. وی از سال 2006 در این مركز كار می كرده كه رئیس جدید به وی دستور داده بود ریشش را بزند اما وی این كار را رد كرده بود و ترجیح داده بود تا اخراج شود. وی به خاطر اخراجش هم اكنون به دادگاه ایلی نویز شكایت كرده است. به گفته همكاران وی از زید خواسته شده بوده تا مدارك مسلمان بودنش را ارائه دهد اما قبل از اینكه وی این كار را بكند اخراج شده است. یكی از مهمترین مشكلات مسلمانان در آمریكا پیش داوری درباره آنها و نگرش این گروه به عنوان تروریست است.

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Muslim man chooses beard over job

By Khalid Hasan

WASHINGTON: A Muslim man, A Zaidi, has sued a local police department in Illinois for sacking him because he refused to shave off his beard.

He sued the Kane County Sheriff’s Department, where he worked from July-December 2006.

Zaidi had lost his job as a Kane County correctional officer last year when the new sheriff, Pat Perez, ordered that all employees must be clean-shaven. Zaidi refused, explaining that his beard was “an expression of his Muslim practice and belief”.

A supervisor had asked Zaidi for a proof that he was Muslim, he claims, but he was told to quit or be dismissed before he could do so. A court will now review Zaidi’s complaint. The major problems faced by American Muslims are prejudice and being viewed as terrorists.

جری لوییس در حین حملِ سلاح گرم به هواپیما دستگیر شد.

جری لوییس کمدین معروف در فرودگاه لاس وگاس به جرم حمل سلاح گرم در کیف همراه خود قبل از سوار شدن به هواپیمایی به مقصد دیترویت بازداشت و سپس آزاد شد. جری لوییس که هشتاد و دوسال دارد مدعی شده که کیف همراه اش را خانواده اش برایش بسته اند. در ضمن گلوله ای در اسلحه نبود.

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Perhaps Jerry Lewis was on his way to Dennis Farina"s house.

The original Nutty Professor was briefly detained Friday at Las Vegas" McCarran International Airport after trying to board a flight to Detroit with an unloaded gun in his carry-on luggage.

Police confiscated the .22-caliber Beretta, and Lewis was cited for carrying a concealed weapon without a permit.

Like Farina, who recently pleaded no contest to trying to fly with a loaded gun that he supposedly forgot was in his briefcase, Lewis" camp maintains that the 82-year-old comedian didn"t know he was packing heat.

And, according to his manager, the so-called weapon was actually a hollowed-out prop gun that wasn"t capable of firing.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police spokesman Officer Bill Cassell said, however, if it had really been a shell of a gun, "it wouldn"t be a weapon, and we couldn"t cite him for carrying a weapon."

All of which apparently went down in a timely fashion—after Lewis was cited, he was allowed to board his Northwest Airlines flight.

گرفتگی کامل خورشید

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روز جمعه گرفتگی کامل خورشید در گرینلند، سیبری، مغولستان و چین میلیونها تماشاگر خوش شانس را شگفت زده می کند.

اگر وضعیت هوا مساعد باشد، مردم در نقاط خاصی از جهان که مبادرت به تماشای آسمان کنند ستارگان را در طول روز هنگامی که ماه به طور تدریجی کل خورشید را در برمی گیرد خواهند دید.

بر خلاف دوران باستان، که گرفتگی ها در بسیاری از فرهنگ ها بد شگون بودند، کمتر کسی در جهان بایستی در انتظار سرنوشت بدی باشد. هنوز افسانه ها مخصوصا در مناطق دوردست تاکید دارند که این اتفاق ارواح شیطانی را تحریک خواهد کرد.

قبل از اینکه یک توضیح علمی برای گرفتگی ها مطرح شود افسانه ها و رازهای فراوانی در این مورد وجود داشت در بعضی از فرهنگ ها مطرح می کردند که شیطان یا اژدها خورشید را می بلعد.

علی رغم شایعات و افسانه ها، تماشای گرفتگی کامل خورشید برای چشم ها ضرری ندارد. با این حال تماشای مستقیم به خورشید در هنگام گرفتگی جزئی آن باعث آسیب دیدن چشم ها خواهد شد، مگر اینکه محافظان چشم مناسبی استفاده کنید.

A total eclipse of the sun Friday should fascinate millions of lucky sky watchers in Greenland, Siberia, Mongolia and China.

If the weather cooperates, people along a narrow path who venture out and look up will see stars during the day as the sun is gradually devoured and ultimately blotted out by the moon.

Unlike ancient times, when eclipses were viewed as bad omens in many cultures, fewer people should be expecting doom this time around. Still, myths persist, especially in remote regions, so it"s likely there will be some banging on pots and other creative tactics employed to drive the "evil spirits" away.

Myth and mystery

Solar eclipses occur when the moon moves in front of the sun. This can happen only at the time of a new moon, when the moon is between Earth and the sun. When the three objects align perfectly an eclipse occurs.

Before there was a scientific explanation for eclipses, myth and mystery was pervasive.

Many cultures thought a demon or dragon was devouring the sun.

Even nowadays many myths persist. In Egypt, as one example, children are often kept indoors with windows covered or shades drawn during an eclipse.

Prior to a total solar eclipse in 2006, one Indian paper advised pregnant women not to go outside during the eclipse to avoid having a blind baby or one with a cleft lip. Food cooked before the eclipse was to be thrown out afterward because it would be impure and those who are holding a knife or ax during the eclipse would cut themselves, the Hindustan Times added.

Risk of eye injury

Eclipses can indeed be dangerous.

Despite myths and rumors, a total solar eclipse is safe to watch during the darkness of totality, when no rays of the sun are passing to your eyes. The corona, or atmosphere of the sun, is often partly visible when the moon blocks out the main disk of the sun. Viewing the corona during totality also is safe.

However, looking directly at the sun, even during a partial eclipse, will damage your eyes unless you wear proper eye protection. It is extremely dangerous to eyesight to look directly at an eclipse at any stage expect during totality.

شیخ قطری ماشینش را برای تعویض روغن با هواپیما به انگلستان فرستاد

لامبورگینی 190،000 پوندی با پرواز هواپیمایی قطر به هیترو لندن فرستاده شد و برای تعویض روغن به نمایندگی رفت. هزینۀ تعویض روغن 3552 پوند بود و هزینۀ رفت و برگشت با هواپیما 20،000 پوند ! گروه های حامی محیط زیست به این اقدام شیخ اعتراض کرده اند . لامبرگینی مورد بحث همان مدل لامبرگینی است که در فیلم جدید بتمن "شوالیۀ سیاه" استفاده شده و اکنون بر پردۀ سینما است.

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A RICH Arab sent his Lamborghini on a 6,500-mile round trip to Britain for a service.

The £190,000 supercar was put on a scheduled flight from Qatar to Heathrow – then flown BACK after the oil check.

Money was no object as the flight would have cost the owner – thought to be a Sheikh – around £20,000.

The move sparked fury from green campaigners.

An airport worker said: “This car doesn’t have a carbon footprint – more of a crater.”

The overall cost of sending the Lamborghini to London for the oil change would have cost more than £23,000.

His black-and-gold supercar costs £3,552 to service at an approved dealer – on top of the £20,000 to freight from Qatar to Britain.

The Murciélago LP640 – driven by Batman in movie The Dark Knight – arrived from the Middle Eastern country on Friday.

It cleared customs and was trucked to specialist mechanics in London for the service.

On Monday it was flown back 3,250 miles to the oil-rich state where it was collected by the owner.

A cargo handler at Heathrow blasted the car’s environmental damage.

He said: “It would have been far more efficient to fly mechanics out there.”

 در اولین مورد شبیه سازی (کلونینگ) تجاری سگ در دنیا: زن آمریکایی خانه اش را فروخت و خرج شبیه سازی سگ خانگیش کرد

"برنان مک کینی" 57 ساله از کالیفرنیا خانه اش را فروخت تا هزینۀ 50،000 دلاری کلونینگ را به یک آزمایشگاه متعلق به کمپانی بیوتکنولوژی در کرۀ جنوبی پرداخت کند. او که با "بوگر" سگ تریر خانگیش روابط عاطفی عمیقی داشت ترتیبی داد که دو سال پیش در زمان مرگ "بوگر" سلول های پوستش توسط دانشمندان کره ای برداشته شود. دانشمندان سپس سلولها را به جنین ها در رحم دو ماده سگ وارد کردند و 5 تولۀ حاصل از کلونینگ هفتۀ گذشته در سئول متولد شدند. سگ ها به دلیل سیکل تخمک گذاری غیر قابل پیشبینی سخت ترین پستاندار برای کلونینگ هستند. کمپانی کره ای پیشبینی کرده در سال آینده 100 سگ را کلونینگ کند و امیدوار است با پیشرفت تکنولوژی هزینۀ لازم را کاهش دهد.

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Woman takes delivery of world"s first commercially cloned dogs

The loss of Booger the pit bull terrier was almost more than Bernann McKinney could bear.

Now she is happy, minus $50,000 and her house, and owner of five cloned Booger puppies.

"It is a miracle for me because I was able to smile again, laugh again and just feel alive again," McKinney told a news conference in the South Korea capital to show off the week-old black puppies - all of whose names include the word Booger.

They are the work of the biotech firm RNL Bio, affiliated with the South Korean lab which produced the world"s first cloned dog and is staffed with former associates of disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk.

She sold her house in the United States to raise the $50,000 for RNL scientists to turn skin cells taken from Booger before he died two years ago into embryos carried by two surrogate dogs for two months until giving birth to the puppies last week.

"I had to make sacrifices and I dream of the day, some day when everyone can afford to clone their pet because losing a pet is a terrible, terrible loss to anyone."

After rescuing him from a shelter 12 years ago, Booger had become an indispensable part of her life, said the 57-year-old Californian.

The lab said it hoped to make its technology more commercial along with its programme to clone sniffer dogs for the Korean customs service.

"As of today, we are at the stage of receiving orders from anywhere in the world," RNL CEO Ra Jeongchan said.

RNL has said it expected to clone about 100 dogs next year and for the price to drop as technology improves.

Hwang has been on trial for more than two years on charges of breaking the law on research ethics and for misusing state funds and private donations.

RNL"s research staff is made up of scientists who stayed behind when Hwang left the prestigious Seoul National University after his research results were found to be fraudulent.

Dogs are considered one of the more difficult mammals to clone because their reproductive cycle includes difficult-to-predict ovulations.

ساعی اولین طلای المپیک پکن را کسب کرد

هادی ساعی تکواندوکار کارآزموده ایرانی، مدال طلای سبک وزن بازیهای المپیک پکن را با شکست مائورو سارمینتو ایتالیایی مال خود کرد.

روز جمعه در فینال وزن منفی 80 کیلوگرم، قهرمان ایرانی جهان و المپیک دارنده مدال برنز اروپا را شکست داد، تا دومین مدال طلای المپیک خود و اولین مدال طلای کشور ایران در بازی های المپیک پکن، را به دست آورد.

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وجود رئیس زن استرس محیط کار برای زنان را افزایش می دهد / علت:عدم تحمل رقبای همجنس توسط زنان موفق 

زنانی كه موظف به اجرای دستورات یك رئیس زن هستند احساس استرس بیشتری دارند. محققان دانشگاه تورنتو اعلام كردند در حالیكه جنسیت رئیس برای كارمندان مرد مهم نیست اما زنانی كه رئیس زن دارند بیشتر از افسردگی، سردرد و بیخوابی رنج می برند و علت می تواند این باشد كه زنان موفق دوست ندارند در میان رقبای هم جنس خود باشند. این در حالی است كه زنان بیشتر ترجیح میدهند تحت ریاست یك مرد كار كنند. این رفتار به سندروم ملكه زنبور معروف است.

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While the sex of their manager makes no difference to men, women suffer more from depression, headaches and insomnia if they take their orders from a member of the same sex.

Scientists from the University of Toronto, which studied 1,800 US workers, believe the explanation could lie in Queen Bee syndrome, in which successful women do no like to be surrounded by female competitors.

It was also suggested by the researchers, females may prefer being bossed by men, as they see leadership as a traditionally male role.

The researchers looked at stress levels and the physical health of workers compared in three situations - working for a male boss, a female, and one of each.

Women with a female supervisor suffered far more than those with a male boss, reporting more psychological distress and physical problems.

Those with a male supervisor had far fewer problems, while those with both were somewhere in the middle.

Men suffered no difference in level of distress, no matter whether the boss was male or female, although they tended to far better if they were bossed by a male-female team.

Scott Schieman, author of the study, admitted the results could be down to women tending to work in different jobs, thereby skewing the results.

He told the Journal of Health and Social Behaviour: "It may be that something about the nature of the work itself is influencing these health differences.

"For example, women working with a woman supervisor might tend to be found mostly in the caring sector or in jobs that tend to be under-resourced, under-funded and under-valued, such as social work or education, creating stress both for the workers themselves and stress for the boss that might trickle down to her subordinates.

"These are speculative points that need to be investigated further".

کشف یک «عدد اول» جدید که سیزده میلیون رقم دارد !

ریاضی دانان دانشگاه کالیفرنیا در لوس آنجلس موفق به کشفی شده اند که آنان را مستحق دریافت جایزه ای به ارزش یکصد هزار دلار کرده است . کشف این دانشمندان عبارت است از یافتن جدید ترین «عدد اول» ، که عددی است با بیش از سیزده میلیون رقم . انها برای محاسبه این عدد مجبور شدند تا از قدرت محاسبه هفتاد و پنج کامپیوتر که به یکدیگر وصل شده بودند استفاده کنند. یاد آوری میشود که اعداد اول عدد های طبیعی هستند که به جز بر خودشان و بر «یک» به هیچ عدد طبیعی دیگری قابل تقسیم نمیباشند .

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Huge new prime number discovered

Mathematicians in California could be in line for a $100,000 prize (£54,000) for finding a new prime number which has 13 million digits.

Prime numbers can be divided only by themselves and one.

The prize was set up by the Electronic Frontier Foundation to promote co-operative computing on the Internet.

The team from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) found the new number by linking 75 computers and harnessing their unused power.

This enabled them to perform the enormous number of calculations needed to find and verify a new prime.

Thousands of people around the world linked the powers of their personal computers in the search for a higher "Mersenne" prime number - named after 17th-Century French mathematician Marin Mersenne.

Mersenne primes are expressed as two to the power of P, minus one - with P being itself a prime number.

Edson Smith, the leader of the winning UCLA team, told the Associated Press news agency: "We"re delighted. Now we"re looking for the next one, despite the odds."

چهارمین قطعنامه شورای امنیت علیه ایران تصویب شد

شورای امنیت سازمان ملل شنبه بعد از ظهر به اتفاق آراء قطعنامه دیگری را تصویب کرده است که ایران را ترغیب می کند بخش های حساس برنامه اتمی اش را معلق کند. هرچند این قطعنامه برخلاف میل واشنگتن حاوی تحریم های تازه ای علیه ایران نیست، اما آمریکا آن را به عنوان نشانه اتحاد بین المللی علیه برنامه اتمی ایران تعبیر کرده است. قطعنامه 1835 از ایران می خواهد "به طور کامل و بدون معطلی به تعهدات خود (براساس قطعنامه های مرتبط سازمان ملل) عمل کرده و درخواست های شورای حکام آژانس بین المللی انرژی اتمی را اجرا کند." قطعنامه از ایران می خواهد سه قطعنامه پیشین شورای امنیت را هرچه سریعتر اجرا کند. این رای گیری فورا پس از توافق روز جمعه آمریکا و روسیه برای پی گرفتن تلاش های شورای امنیت در محکومیت برنامه اتمی ایران انجام شد. زلمی خلیلزاد سفیر آمریکا در سازمان ملل فورا از تصویب این قطعنامه توسط کلیه 15 عضو شورای امنیت استقبال کرد. وی گفت "این نشان می دهد که جامعه بین المللی بر سر این موضوع متحد است و اینکه ایران باید همکاری کند".

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UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a new resolutionIran for refusing to halt its uranium enrichment program and offering Tehran incentives to do so. Saturday reaffirming previous sanctions on

The speedy vote followed a compromise between the United States and Russia to lead a new council effort to condemn Iran"s nuclear program, without introducing any new sanctions.

The brief resolution reaffirmed the three earlier Security Council sanctions resolutions, which imposed progressively tougher sanctions on Iran for refusing to halt its uranium enrichment program.

U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said the council had restated its call for Iran to comply with the resolutions and cooperate with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency.

"It is unacceptable for Iran to defy the security council resolutions," Khalilzad said.

Iran"s mission to the United Nations immediately condemned the resolution as "unwarranted and unconstructive," and said Iran remained determined to exercise "its inalienable right for peaceful uses of nuclear technology."

Council members met behind closed doors earlier Saturday to hammer out the draft resolution.

The resolution was designed to send a signal that "our resolve has not weakened on this issue, that the discussions among our political directors about the next steps remain very much there," British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said.

Even envoys from countries that abstained in votes on the past resolutions said they supported the measure.

"Once a resolution is adopted by the Security Council, it is incumbent upon member states to comply with it," said Indonesia"s U.N. Ambassador Marty Natalegawa.

He said Indonesia would reaffirm the need to comply with past measures against Iran, although Jakarta did not support them at the time and abstained on the last sanctions resolution adopted on March 3.

Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin noted that the new resolution restated that the dispute with Iran should be solved through diplomacy. He said earlier resolutions were carefully crafted to "avoid any military solution to the problem."

Existing sanctions include an asset freeze on 65 companies and individuals linked to Iran"s nuclear program, and a travel ban on five people associated with Tehran"s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

The sanctions also include bans on Iranian arms exports, supplying Iran with materials and technology that could contribute to its nuclear and missile programs, and on trade in goods that have both civilian and military uses.

The latest resolution refers to the "dual-track approach" adopted by the council. This presents Iran with a choice of incentives to stop enriching uranium and, alternatively, threats of new sanctions if it does not comply.

The document also calls on Tehran "to comply fully and without delay, with its obligations" and meet IAEA"s requirements.

The incentives package put forth by the European Union in 2006 promised Iran political and economic assistance, including a pledge to help it fight drug trafficking from Afghanistan.

IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei warned Monday that he cannot determine whether Iran is hiding some nuclear activities, comments that appeared to reflect a high level of frustration with stonewalling of his investigators by the Iranians.

Iran insists its nuclear program is purely peaceful and designed to produce nuclear energy, but the U.S. and Europeans suspect Tehran is pursuing nuclear weapons.

The United States, Britain and France had been pressing for a new round of sanctions to step up pressure against Iran for its continuing refusal to suspend uranium enrichment as a prelude to talks on its nuclear program. But Russia and China objected to new sanctions.

Earlier this week, Iran"s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused "a few bullying powers" of trying to thwart the country"s legitimate nuclear program. Ahmadinejad said that Tehran needs the ability to produce nuclear fuel because it cannot rely on other nations to supply enriched uranium to the Islamic regime"s planned reactors.

Enrichment can turn uranium into the fissile material used in nuclear warheads. But it can also be used to generate power and is allowed under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.