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...very difficult to deliver. Virtually all the fatalities would be caused by the explosion--tragic enough but nothing compared with a nuclear blast. The genius of a dirty bomb is the psychological terror it would trigger in a population conditioned to panic at the mere mention of radiation. The actual danger, however, has been overstated. According to the Federation of American Scientists, fallout from a bomb exploding in New York City that contained a 12-in. pencil-shaped rod of cobalt (like those used in food-irradiation machines) might increase the long-term risk of death from cancer in Manhattan...
...Democratic Change accused Mugabe of being a "world-class hypocrite." Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi blocked an attempt by Mugabe to hold talks with Italian leaders. NIGERIA Hot Sahel More than 60 people died as a result of a heat wave in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, and the actual death toll could be even higher because many families in remote areas fail to register their dead before burying them within the 24-hour period customary for Muslims. Seasonal rains have failed for two months, and temperatures above 50? have been recorded in the past few weeks. Reservoirs are empty...
...movements in the hope of revealing a hidden network already operating in the U.S. also raises important questions. For one thing, it means the authorities don't know exactly what al Muhajir intended to do, and more importantly, if he would have enlisted help. "There was not an actual plan," said Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz on Monday, adding that al Muhajir had returned home "to conduct reconnaissance operations for al-Qaeda...
...idea is more metaphor than actual nervous system, but it is a metaphor wired into the "biology of business" Zeitgeist. Other industry thinkers have diagnosed the same problem and are competing for leadership with models of their own. Companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year paying technicians to regulate systems that theoretically could regulate themselves. Research at Big Blue has already led to products such as its Intelligent Resource Director software, which helps high-end zSeries mainframes allocate processing power where it is needed most. These products will offer big savings: It costs twice as much to manage...
...meantime, Kurzweil juggles several lucrative projects under the banner Kurzweil Technologies, descendants of his original work in pattern-recognition programs, which simulate human cognition: Medical Learning Co. provides doctors with broad health-care information and a "virtual patient" educational tool. At FatKat, Kurzweil runs both simulated trades and an actual experimental investment fund that uses pattern-recognition software to spot trends in financial markets; a hedge fund is in the works...