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Israel's national tutoring program dubbed Perach

Flower Power: National Tutoring Program Helps Disadvantaged Pupils Blossom

07.05.1998
By Nofit Milstein   REHOVOT, Israel - May 7, 1998 - Mix one party-loving, fun-seeking Israeli college student with one 12-year-old, newly-arrived Russian immigrant. Add one disadvantaged child whose father is in jail or an Ethiopian girl living in a cramped, shabby trailer who has never seen a movie nor splashed freely with other children in a cool blue pool. Repeat at least twice a week for 12 months. Watch mixture mature and become almost inseparable.  
Superconductivity

Superconductivity "Gutterballs"

01.05.1998
With electricity such a familiar part of our lives, measuring the electric current that flows through a material sounds fairly old hat. Yet Weizmann Institute scientists have made a surprising new discovery related to the behavior of electric currents in materials known as superconductors, whose resistance to the flow of electricity is exceedingly low.
Clusters, Computers and the Human Brain

Clusters, Computers and the Human Brain

01.05.1998
Math & Computer Science
How does our brain cope with the enormous flux of information that bombards our senses? One important neural strategy is the ability to "cluster," or categorize, data and thus make sense of the world around us.
Antibodies Know Right From Left

Antibodies Know Right From Left

01.05.1998
Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics
Knowing right from left is essential in many areas of life - even on the molecular level. Prof. Meir Wilchek of the Weizmann Institute's Biological Chemistry Department, working with an international team of researchers, has now discovered that this ability is particularly prominent in antibodies, the Y-shaped proteins produced by the immune system.
Prof. David Wallach

1997 Teva Founders Prize To Weizmann Institute's Prof. David Wallach

22.03.1998
REHOVOT, Israel - March 22, 1998 - Prof. David Wallach of the Weizmann Institute of Science's Biological Chemistry Department has been awarded the 1997 Teva Founders Prize.  
Sales of Products Emanating from Weizmann Institute Research - $600 million in 1997

Sales of Products Emanating from Weizmann Institute Research - $600 million in 1997

19.03.1998
Technology & Applications
REHOVOT, Israel - March 19, 1998 - Approximately $600 million worth of products emanating from research at the Weizmann Institute of Science were sold by Israeli and non-Israeli companies in 1997. Israeli companies were responsible for half of these sales, mainly for export. These figures derive from a survey conducted by the Tel Aviv-based accounting firm Kost Levary & Forer, a member of Ernst & Young International.
'Green' Approach May Significantly Improve Cancer Therapy

'Green' Approach May Significantly Improve Cancer Therapy

03.02.1998
REHOVOT, Israel - February 3, 1998 - A promising cancer therapy which destroys tumors by exposing them to light may be significantly improved thanks to new materials developed at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Institute scientists reported on the new development at the Conference on Chemical Modifiers of Cancer Treatment in Clearwater, Florida, on January 28-31.  
Weizmann Institute Astrophysicist Hot on the Tracks of a New

Weizmann Institute Astrophysicist Hot on the Tracks of a New "Strange" Star

12.01.1998
REHOVOT, Israel - January 12, 1998 - A new "strange" star is suspected to be lurking in our galaxy - and a Weizmann Institute astrophysicist is hot on its tracks.
Cellular Short Circuit Causes Insulin Resistance

Cellular Short Circuit Causes Insulin Resistance

01.01.1998
Biochemistry
Future treatments for diabetes may correct the underlying causes of this prevalent metabolic disorder rather than just treat its symptoms. An important step in this direction has been made by Prof. Yehiel Zick of the Weizmann Institute's Molecular Cell Biology Department.
The Envelope Please....

The Envelope Please....

01.01.1998
Math & Computer Science
Two managers have run into a delicate problem. Each has received a complaint from a company employee on a sensitive matter. In both cases, the complainer has requested to keep his identity confidential. The managers would like to determine whether the same person has complained to both of them, but how can they do this without revealing to each other their complainers' identity?

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