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Other Pentagon units also field secret agents. Code Names, a new book written by defense analyst William Arkin, identifies more than 100 secret units, intelligence programs and communications networks that the Pentagon has set up to fight terrorists. Many have exotic designations like Aztec Silence and Island Sun. "When you put together all these code names, it shows there's something going on out there and it's complex," says Arkin...
Still, the overall numbers are unknown, and some experts are worried that if they're ever tallied, they could come as a nasty surprise. Says William Arkin, a former Army intelligence officer and a senior military adviser for Human Rights Watch: "I think we are going to be stunned by the level of carnage caused by this...
...Network was just a joke. Sidney Lumet, the director of that scathing satire of TV, has adapted his social-issues subject matter into a talky, intriguing, if spotty, series about New York City courts. The dialogue can be as heavyhanded as, well, a Sidney Lumet picture. But Alan Arkin is powerful yet subtle as a liberal judge under attack for setting free a petty crook who then kills a cop. Worth putting on your docket for a probationary period...
...course, no one knows for sure whether Arkin or anyone else will be able to develop a working computer model of the cell. But it's the sort of project that could keep scientists busy for another 100 years...
...Arkin is developing a similar program he calls bio/SPICE that he hopes will do for the cell what SPICE did for the chip. His first targets are simple bacteria. "They're still complicated enough that we get depressed," Arkin admits with a laugh. But he has already had some success grouping reactions together by the kinds of jobs they do. And, sure enough, some of them bear a remarkable resemblance to the gates and switches of an electronic circuit...