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Politics/headline news
Burns in Cairo
Special US envoy to the Middle East William Burns is
expected to meet with Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak on Thursday. Burns, the former US
ambassador to Jordan, has already met with Palestinian
and Israeli leaders in an attempt to fulfil his mission of
bringing the parties out of the current conflict. Burns is
using both the Mitchell report and the Egyptian-
Jordanian intitiative as blueprints to finding a framework
upon which both sides could agree. He faces an uphill
battle however, considering the depth and scale the
conflict has taken on since it began on September 28,
2000.
Education
Mobiles join the arsenal
With final exams in universities and schools either
underway or set to begin, Al-Wafd could not resist doing
a half page feature on cheating. The paper says that
mobile phones are quickly replacing more traditional
means of cheating on tests, as students immediately
pick up on ways that new technologies can help them
get by when studying just doesn't cut it. Although the
number of actual cheating incidents that have been
discovered is small, the feature is full of stories of text
messages with answers being sent by students, and the
use of mobiles as decoys to disract proctors while other
students cheat.
Telephone news
Bills to be collected at home
Telecom Egypt head Aqil Bashir told the press on
Tuesday that a final decision had been made to begin
colleting phone bill payments on a monthly basis from
people at home, similar to the way electricity bills are
paid. There will be an additional LE2.75 charge added
to each bill to cover the costs of this method of
collection, which will begin next year. The decision was
taken after a successful trial run of the service in
Shubra. Currently, phone bills are paid twice a year at
phone company offices.
New developments/ad watch
Make your own burger
The American hamburger chain Fuddruckers is opening
its first branch in Cairo on Wednesday May 30,
according to ads that have been appearing in the
papers over the past week. Fuddrucker's style of do-it-
yourself burgers will join the bevy of other burger
choices already available in town. The new restaurant is
located on Mecca Street in the heart of Mohandiseen.
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