April 14, 2005

Girls Say They Stink at Math, Even When They Don't ABC News - In a study, girls in advanced mathematics classes said they thought they were worse at math than boys who were in basic math classes. "Boys believed they were better than their grades actually are, while girls believed they were worse than their grades actually are," study author Dr. Pamela Davis-Kean of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor told Reuters Health. 4:30:47 PM

Flying Pig Moment? Iran decries anti-Semitic TV The speaker of Iran's parliament rebuked state television on Wednesday for airing serials that insult the country's ancient but dwindling Jewish community, the official IRNA news agency reported. "Insulting Jews and attributing false things to them in TV serials ... has not only hurt the feelings of the Jewish community but has also, it can be said with conviction, led to the emigration of a considerable percentage of the Jewish community," he said.  11:49:54 AM

Wolfgang Droege, a white supremacist who once led the Heritage Front, an infamous continental network of neo-Nazis, was shot dead Wednesday in Toronto's east end, news outlets reported. Droege was born in Germany and in the early 1970s moved to Canada, where he became a Canadian citizen. In 1976, he joined the Ku Klux Klan and tried to start a branch of the organization in Toronto. Five years later he helped organize a failed attempt to invade the Carribean country of Dominica and overthrow its government. He was given a three-year prison sentence. In 1985, he was arrested in Alabama and charged with cocaine possession and a weapons offence. He was deported to Canada in April 1989 after serving a U.S. prison sentence for those charges. In October of that year he set up the now-defunct Heritage Front. 11:08:38 AM

Muslim Charity, CAIR Founder Found Guilty of Terrorism Support Three Dallas-area brothers were convicted Wednesday of supporting terrorism by funneling money to a high-ranking official in the militant Palestinian group Hamas. Ghassan and Bayan Elashi and their company were found guilty of all 21 federal counts they faced: conspiracy, money laundering and dealing in property of a terrorist. Basman Elashi, who faced the same counts, was convicted of three counts of conspiracy but acquitted of the other charges. 9:40:33 AM