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It's been 25 years since then US President Bill Clinton oversaw a famous handshake between Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn. The Oslo Accords, a series of agreements between Israel and the Palestinians that were considered a road map to peace, had just been signed. The optimism of that day has evaporated. And in recent years any hopes for a settlement have steadily receded, making peace in the Middle East a distant dream. Tony Walker explains why.
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US President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat sign the historic Oslo accord at the White House in September 1993.
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Tony Walker, La Trobe University
In 1993 the Oslo Accords were struck in optimism, but a quarter of a century later little has changed - and there's no real prospect it ever will.
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Fish in focus
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Alexandria Volkening, The Ohio State University
Zebrafish are known for their black and gold stripes, but researchers are still figuring out how pigment cells interact to form these patterns.
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Ruth H. Leeney, Natural History Museum
Africa's remaining sawfishes are found along the coasts of Madagascar and Mozambique. But they are under threat.
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Politics + Society
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María Isabel Alfonso, St. Joseph's College of New York
Cuba is avowedly secular. But as the country debates a new Constitution that would protect LGBT rights, churches have come out strongly against gay marriage — a sign of change on the Communist island.
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Science + Technology
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Charles Marshall, University of California, Berkeley
A tiny percentage of museums’ natural history holdings are on display. Very little of these vast archives is digitized and available online. But museums are working to change that.
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