Gaza’s Isolation Takes Toll On Students And Prices ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Steven Erlanger - November 12, 2007 - 1:31pm Miriam Ashour will turn 18 in November and speaks English with only the slightest of accents. She has a scholarship to study for a college degree in business administration at Columbia College, affiliated with the United Methodist Church, in Columbia, S.C. But she will miss at least the first semester. She is among some 670 Gazans enrolled in schools abroad who have been denied permission to leave the territory. » Read more

U.s. And Israel Play Down Hopes For Peace Talks ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Steven Erlanger - November 12, 2007 - 1:30pm The American-sponsored Middle East peace conference expected by the end of the month looks to be thin on content, mostly serving as a stage to begin formal negotiations on a peace treaty between Israel and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas. Israeli and American officials have been so busy dampening expectations that they are not even calling the event a conference anymore, instead referring to it merely as a “meeting.” » Read more