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...Kong: fine for scorpion bowls and chicken dumplings, but an unlikely place to go for intellectual stimulation. Until now. Last Monday, Charlie P. Pierce, a staff reporter for The Boston Globe’s Sunday Magazine, author, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio’s “It’s Only a Game” discussed his newest book, “Moving the Chains: Tom Brady and the Pursuit of Everything,” at Hong Kong restaurant in collaboration with Harvard Book Store and The Boston Phoenix. “We wanted to hold...
...whether self-described spy Omar Nasiri is the real deal, or if his cloak-and-dagger tale of infiltrating al-Qaeda is an unverifiable get-rich-quick scam. According to his new book, Inside the Jihad: My Life With Al Qaeda, A Spy's Story, the Moroccan-born author (who uses Nasiri as a pseudonym) says he spent nearly seven years leading a dangerous double life as an informer for European intelligence services on the activities of his brothers-in-jihad, including vivid detail of combat and explosives training in Afghan camps, and his clandestine work within al-Qaeda...
...only other people who could confirm whether this story is true or false are the author's former al-Qaeda comrades," the official says with a laugh. "And as frequently flawed terror reporting and vapid books by so-called experts attests to, those people don't write many letters of denial to newspaper editors or publishers to set the record straight...
...women with BRCA-1, the naturally occurring female hormone progesterone speeds the proliferation of mammary cells. "If we block the progesterone pathway using an antiprogesterone, it could prevent breast cancer," says Eva Lee, lead author of the study. That's exactly what mifepristone did for the experiment's mice, all of which had the BRCA-1 gene. At age 1, none of those treated with mifepristone had developed tumors. But all the untreated mice had tumors by the time they were 8 months...
...must pay for his goodies on other markets." Even if more countries adopt and enforce the U.S. list of banned items, Kim's cronies will troll the black market or continue to "buy the stuff in China with their Chinese registered and named trading companies," according to Michael Breen, author of the biography Kim Jong-Il: North Korea's Dear Leader. Still, any hopes Kim had of learning to jetski might have to wait...