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WEEK BY WEEK [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] JUNE JULY AUG. SEPT. OCT. TOTAL WEEKS WON REPUBLICANS TIE X TIE X TIE X 3 DEMOCRATS...
...Gaza Palestinian Infighting In the deadliest intra-Palestinian violence in nine months, 11 people were killed in the Gaza Strip on Aug. 2. Eight of them were members of the Hilles clan, a large family of Gazans who found themselves in a three-way crossfire among the Islamist group Hamas, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah and Israel. The Hilles clan was blamed for a late-July bombing that left five Hamas members and one child dead. Hamas retaliated, and in the ensuing violence, more than 180 people--many of them clan members--fled over the border into Israel, where they...
...India A DEADLY TREK One hundred forty-five people, many of them children, were crushed to death on Aug. 3 when thousands of pilgrims at a remote Himalayan temple stampeded down a narrow path after hearing rumors of a landslide. Trapped between a wall and a precipice, they had nowhere to go when those running down the path collided with others on their...
...Aug. 6, nearly seven years after anonymous letters containing anthrax spores killed five people and sickened 17 others, the FBI and Department of Justice presented their case against Ivins. It was as much a trial of the FBI as it was of Ivins himself. The anthrax murder case has become an epic embarrassment for the bureau, and the suicide of Ivins on July 29 forced the government to go public with its case against him before it was ready. The evidence the government released was compelling. But the science behind much of the narrative remains a mystery. If the goal...
...remain mystified by what this new science actually is. "The nature of biological weapons is such that it is very difficult to figure out where something came from," says Randall Larsen, author of a 2007 book on homeland security, Our Own Worst Enemy. After watching the press conference on Aug. 6 and reading the documents, Tara O'Toole, director of the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, found no answers to her questions. "We don't know what techniques were used to link the samples," she says. "There are a lot of weird little details that...