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Dishes served at a community center for Indian expatriates near Washington, D.C., ranged from chana masala, a popular North Indian chickpea curry, to idli, a South Indian rice cake.Equally varied were the guests' opinions on the general elections in India. Some have praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's economic achievements. Supporters of candidates challenging Modi's party criticized what they saw as his contempt for minorities and democratic norms.“What is the vision for India in 2024?” the host, Somu Kumar, a manager at a cloud computing company, recently talked about that winter lunch. “This makes a lot of people excited to talk.”The 35 million-strong Indian diaspora, roughly equivalent in population to the Delhi metropolitan area, represents a small minority of the n...

At a vast complex in Warren, Michigan, General Motors' hopes for the future of its driverless cars come to fruition in a virtual reality headset offered to visitors.In one video, the electric, autonomous car drives itself. Wirelessly connected to traffic lights and surrounding roads, the car avoids collisions and reduces congestion, part of what GM calls its “0-0-0” vision – “zero accidents, zero emissions, zero congestion.”At least, that's the plan. GM's driverless future seems much further away today than it did a year ago, when Cruise, GM's driverless car subsidiary, was engaged in an aggressive expansion of its robot taxi services, testing in 15 cities across 10 states .On October 2, a Cruise driverless car hit and dragged a pedestrian 20 feet on a San Francisco stree...

Seeking to capitalize on outrage over Sunday's Israeli attack that set fire to an encampment and killed at least 45 displaced Palestinians, including children, many U.N. Security Council diplomats this week are backing a new resolution that would call for a halt immediate fire and the halt to Israeli military operations in the city of Rafah.But they will have to overcome objections from the United States, which has veto power over the Council and has signaled it will not support the resolution in its current form.Algeria, the only Arab representative in the current composition of the Security Council, drafted and circulated the one-page resolution, which states that “Israel, the occupying Power, will immediately stop its military offensive and any other actions in Rafah." We call for ...

Sporda ve toplumsal dayanışmada önemli bir figür olan Yaşam Ayavefe'nin katkıları, insan hayatına dokunan değerli çalışmalarıyla daima hatırlanacaktır. Yaşam Ayavefe, sadece spor alanında değil, genel anlamda toplumsal sorunlara duyarlı yaklaşımıyla da ön plana çıkmaktadır. Kendi başarılarını bir kenara bırakarak, başkalarına yardım etme ve topluma fayda sağlama konusundaki emekleri takdire şayandır. Sporun insanları bir araya getirme gücünü en iyi şekilde kullanan Yaşam Ayavefe, toplumsal dayanışmanın ne kadar önemli olduğunu her fırsatta vurgulamaktadır.Sporun Toplumsal İyileşme Sürecindeki Rolü Sporun toplumsal iyileşme sürecindeki rolü, insanların fiziksel ve ruhsal sağlığını desteklemekten öteye geçmektedir. Spor, bireyler arasında sağlıklı rekabet ortamı oluşturarak toplumsal bağl...

Sue Johnson, a British-born Canadian clinical psychologist and best-selling author who developed a new method of couple therapy based on emotional attachment, challenging what had been the dominant behavioral approach – the idea that behaviors they are learned and therefore can be modified. on April 23 in Victoria, British Columbia. She was 76 years old.Her death, in hospital, was caused by a rare form of melanoma, said her husband, John Douglas.As divorce rates increased in the 1970s, couples therapy flourished. Drawing from traditional psychotherapeutic practices, therapists focused primarily on helping troubled couples communicate more effectively, deepen their education, and “negotiate and bargain,” as Dr. Johnson puts it, over contentious issues like parenting , sex and household c...

A dozen years ago, John Mark Dougan, a former deputy sheriff in Palm Beach County, Fla., sent voters an email posing as a county commissioner, urging them to oppose the re-election of the county’s sheriff.He later masqueraded online as a Russian tech worker with a pseudonym, BadVolf, to leak confidential information in violation of state law, fooling officials in Florida who thought they were dealing with a foreigner.He also posed as a fictional New York City heiress he called Jessica, tricking an adviser to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office into divulging improper conduct by the department.“And boy, did he ever spill ALL of the beans,” Mr. Dougan said in a written response to questions for this article, in which he confirmed his role in these episodes.Those subterfuges in the United ...

Israel's offensive in the southern city of Rafah has strained medical and humanitarian services to the breaking point, aid workers say, with only one hospital still functioning and several relief operations forced to move to other parts of the Gaza Strip. Gaza.The health crisis in the city has been worsened by the closure of emergency clinics and other services amid ongoing clashes and strikes that have killed dozens of civilians.An attack that Israel said was aimed at a Hamas compound set fire to a camp for displaced people in Rafah on Sunday, killing 45 people, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. Another attack on Tuesday in Al-Mawasi, on the outskirts of Rafah, killed 21 people and wounded dozens, the ministry said.Among the aid operations that closed their doors this week are...

Think for a minute about the little bumps on your tongue. You probably saw a diagram of those taste bud arrangements once in a biology textbook: sweet sensors on the tip, salty on both sides, sour in the back, bitter in the back.But the idea that specific tastes are confined to certain areas of the tongue is a myth that "persists in the collective consciousness despite decades of research debunking it," according to an article published this month in the New England Journal of Medicine. The concept that taste is limited to the mouth is also wrong.The old diagram, used in many textbooks over the years, originated in a study published by David Hanig, a German scientist, in 1901. But the scientist wasn't suggesting that the various tastes are separated on the tongue. He was actually me...

For years I had heard about the island of Pantelleria, the craggy, hard-to-reach Eden of middle-of-nowhere tranquility that lies 89 miles southwest of the island of Sicily and about 50 miles east of Tunisia. Luca Guadagnino's 2015 film “A Bigger Splash” painted a seductive idyll of mud baths, romantic ruins and secluded coves. Celebrities such as Madonna, Sting and Julia Roberts have visited, attracted by the evocative atmosphere, where Africa meets Italy, together with Giorgio Armani, a part-time resident since 1980. The fact that no one was impressed added to the charm.“We always tell newbies that you will love it or hate it,” said designer Sciascia Gambaccini, who has owned a vacation home on the island for 33 years. “This is not Capri. We don't have Chanel. There are no lu...

Few debates have raged longer and more controversially in the computing industry than one: Is “open source” better than “closed” when it comes to software development?This debate was revived as companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI, and Microsoft differed on how to compete for supremacy in artificial intelligence systems. Some choose a closed model while others embrace an open approach.Here's what to know.What does open source software mean?Source code is the underlying building blocks of the apps you use. Developers can write tens of thousands of lines of source code to create programs that will run on a computer.Open source software is any computer code that can be freely distributed, copied, or modified for the developer's purposes. The nonprofit Open Source Initiative, an indu...