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...militia are gone from Zubayr, but Dr. Hussein is apprehensive about a breakdown in security in the town. "It is very unsafe," he says. "There is no police force, no administrative apparatus of any kind." The British have instituted a 7 p.m. curfew but have few spare troops to patrol the streets. During the day, the town appears to be getting back to normal, with foodstuffs appearing in the market. But normality has its limits...
...researcher, has his lab next door. His research involves supercool low-temperature Physics. Harris estimates that approximately one-third of the experimental physics at Harvard is supercool. Because of such extreme coolness (Harris’ experiment runs at .3 degrees above absolute zero), the research hinges on first-rate apparatus. About two-thirds of the equipment is made from scratch, and a substantial fraction is made in-house at the shop next door by Stanley Cotreau. Harris described Cotreau as, “one of the few people at Harvard who is the absolute master of his domain...
...sons operate on a smaller scale but display their father's cunning and ruthlessness. Uday, 38, the headstrong elder child, long dominated most smuggling routes but was severely injured in a 1996 assassination attempt. That has propelled Qusay, 36, to the fore. He runs Iraq's pervasive security apparatus and has used that position to consolidate financial and political power...
...King's College group, meanwhile, pushed ahead with its DNA research. Franklin kept working to perfect her X-ray images. In May 1952 she took one that would prove crucially important--though until the day she died, she would never realize it. By increasing the humidity in her lab apparatus, she and graduate student Raymond Gosling discovered that DNA could assume two forms. When sufficiently moist, the molecule would stretch and get thinner, and the pictures that resulted were much sharper than anything anyone had ever seen. They called the wetter version the B form...
...opted" to do the intelligence service's bidding. "The fact the Iraqi regime doesn't have a business presence, an airlines presence or a diplomatic presence takes away a platform Saddam could have used" for spying and terrorism, says a retired FBI counter-espionage veteran. "The Iraqi intelligence apparatus wordwide was dramatically diminished in the Persian Gulf crisis." In 1991, the U.S. expelled most Iraqi diplomats, including all known Iraqi intelligence officers using diplomatic or business cover. The CIA and FBI passed information about Iraqi agents and assets to allied security services. "We shared the names with each other...