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A major feature of the rise of Islamism in the Middle East, Asia,
Africa and parts of the West is the rapid growth of a starkly
repressive version of Islamic shari'a law, often fueled by funds
and support from Saudi Arabia. The central purpose of Islamists,
including terrorists, is to impose such law in all Muslim lands,
and then throughout the world in a new Caliphate. Despite its
importance, this worldwide growth of extreme shari'a is
under-documented and little understood. By a comparative study over
the last twenty-five years of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, Sudan,
Nigeria, Malaysia, and Indonesia, this book shows its terrible
effects on human rights, especially the status of women and
religious freedom, of Muslims as well as religious minorities, and
on democracy itself. It also shows that such laws are a direct
threat to the American interest of advancing democracy and human
rights, that the United States lacks a policy for dealing with the
spread of extreme shari'a, and concludes with policy
recommendations for the United States regarding specific countries
confronting extreme shari'a.
High quality child care is especially important for child
development. In this report, we examine child care in Los Angeles
County in 2000-2001. Non-parental child care was used by 37 percent
of children ages 0 to 5 who were not yet in kindergarten or school.
Our results suggest that universal preschool and high-quality child
care programs may be especially important for children from poorer
families.
Across a wide variety of endeavors, failure to anticipate disaster
has been ascribed to the inability to "connect the dots." But to
"connect the dots," one must first "collect the dots." The authors
investigate the barriers to circulating important information and
describes approaches for bringing information together in a
meaningful way and describe a formal process for collecting the
dots.
This study identifies key potential users of high-performance
computing within the Army science and technology community and
develops a strategy to build an initiative that will help the Army
compete effectively for Department of Defense computing resources.
Particular attention was given to applications of HPC in
biotechnology and biomedicine and modeling and simulation of
complex battlefield wireless network communication systems.
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