Reuters report 9 March 2010…

Joe Biden, the US vice-president, is the highest-ranking US official to visit Israel since Barack Obama, the US president, came into office a year ago. The visit is part of a five-day tour of the Middle East, during which Biden will hold discussions on Iran and ways to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. Al Jazeera’s Tom Ackerman reports on the visit. [March 9, 2010]…

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festa do tdl…

This film depicts one of Iran’s key modernization projects with the building of the Karadj Dam in the years 1957-1961. My father, the only American visible in the film, had described its production to me during my youth, but he had never seen it. For his birthday in 1982, I had contacted the Morrison-Knudsen company in Boise, Idaho to see if it remained in their archives. A very kind and knowledge…