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Even before the U.S. warning, the French had been worried about a holiday-season attack. Plainclothes members of an elite branch of the French police were installed on international flights that were considered sensitive. But so far, French officials have nothing tangible to show for the abundance of caution. The passenger suspected of being a Tunisian radical turned out to be a child who coincidentally shared the same name. Likewise, the British Airways flight to Dulles--a route that had also been mentioned in electronic chatter--netted no arrests...
...data that was returned just an hour later revealed that the two viruses were more than similar. They were almost identical. The 14 amino-acid sequences concurred, which meant that these two viruses not only belonged to the same phylogenetic tree, they were both on the same branch, practically the same leaf. Science doesn't produce many moments like this: good luck coinciding with great research had proved that the same virus that was in those wild animal markets had somehow infected a human being. The data was so compelling that the committee resolved that afternoon to inform the governor...
...defined broadly and could be used to justify almost anything," says John Hamre, a Deputy Defense Secretary under Clinton and now president of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "He was the first to realize the shift of power in Washington from the Congress back to the Executive Branch. No one moved so spectacularly, so systematically at a time when everyone else was just confused and scared. Remember: when the plane attacked the Pentagon, Rumsfeld ran toward the accident. He is very perceptive in the midst of chaos. That's when he gets his best results...
...still hear her screams." Musarrat Sahu, Pakistani father who strangled his daughter to death for falling in love with the son of a feuding branch of their family...
Beyond dealing with minority enrollment issues, Edley said he intends to create a branch of the Harvard Civil Rights Project at Berkeley...