By Editor on Mar 6, 2010 in Armenian Genocide | 0 Comments
NEW YORK — On February 28, the CBS weekly news magazine program “60 Minutes” aired a segment titled “The Battle Over History” about the Armenian Genocide and the legacy of its denial by the Turkish state. The segment included an on-site investigation of Armenian mass graves in the Der Zor dessert now in Syria, accompanied by Armenian-American historian, poet and author, Peter Balakian.
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By Editor on Mar 6, 2010 in Armenian Genocide | 0 Comments
By Andy Turpin
Mirror-Spectator Staff
LEXINGTON, Mass. — In anticipation of the House of Representatives’ Res. 252 to recognize the Armenian Genocide, members of the greater Boston Armenian and Jewish communities have formed an Armenian Jewish Coalition (AJC) and presented an online petition to garner support for the immediate passage of the resolution. Read the rest
By Editor on Mar 6, 2010 in Community News | 0 Comments
HOUSTON — The Journal of the National Cancer Institute published online a groundbreaking study this week co-written by Dr. Isabelle Bedrossian, about contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM), a preventive procedure to remove the unaffected breast in patients with disease in one breast. CPM may only offer a survival benefit to breast cancer patients age 50 and younger, who have early-stage disease and are estrogen receptor (ER) negative, according to researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
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By Editor on Mar 6, 2010 in Armenia, Armenian Genocide, Turkey | 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — March 2, the US aerospace and defense industry is urging House of Representatives lawmakers to reject a measure that would call the World War One-era massacre of Armenians by Turkish forces genocide, warning it could jeopardize US exports to Turkey.
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By Editor on Mar 6, 2010 in Community News | 0 Comments
By Anna Yukhananov
Special to the Mirror-Spectator
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Alfred Demirjian, the founder and chief executive of one of Boston’s first data recovery companies, careens through a yellow light before merging across four lanes onto the expressway. He speeds up, then takes both hands off the wheel to adjust the radio tuner.
“When I drive, I think,” Demirjian says. “It calms me down.”
He must be back in the office by 6 p.m. to collect a package from a customer. In the world of data recovery, there are no regular business hours.
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