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...prevent natural disasters. Here in Britain, religious leaders eager to rally their flocks have rushed to offer muddled theological explanations in the national media, attracting the usual scorn from unbelievers. But atheists too can offer nothing better than feeble claims of nature's inherent cruelty. Modern deism advocates an agent or agents of intelligent design whose nature, preferences and intentions we have yet to establish. An increasing number of intellectuals are embracing that concept. Eugene D. Bell-Gam Wembley, England Rapid Reaction Required After 9/11, the U.S. government was criticized for not anticipating the lengths terrorists would...
...Zealand a haven for pedophiles? It's a question being asked four months after U.S. Customs agents presented the country's authorities with a list of suspects caught buying child pornography on the Internet. The agents told Time that none of the dozens of New Zealanders on the list - originating from Operation Falcon, which targeted purchasers of child pornography from websites originating in Belarus - have yet been arrested. Using records of the customers' credit card transactions, U.S. agents amassed a list of over 95,000 potential recipients of child pornography. Offenders were traced to a score of countries, including Australia...
...Friends and family members have long insisted that he was kidnapped by North Korea, but couldn't prove their claims. South Korean prosecutors may have solved the mystery?and also created a diplomatic headache for Seoul. Earlier this month, they indicted a suspected North Korean agent for alleged involvement in a kidnapping ring that is suspected of seizing at least 16 people in China, including Rev. Kim. According to a copy of the indictment obtained by TIME, the suspected abductors operated under instructions from a senior North Korean state-security official tasked with "kidnapping defectors and others working against...
...According to prosecutors, the captured agent told how he and five other men were waiting for Kim when he left the restaurant after lunch. When the pastor got in the front seat of a taxi, two of them allegedly jumped in the back and forced the cabbie to drive off. "Who are you guys? Where are you taking me?" the pastor demanded to know. That night, they are believed to have taken him to North Korea...
...think we've really got what it is that they're doing." The number of Russian spies in the U.S. is especially surprising, given that it was less than four years ago that the Bush Administration expelled 50 of them in retaliation for the humiliating discovery that FBI counterintelligence agent Robert Hanssen had been spying for Russia for 21 years...