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...Pashtun (also represented in Pakistan), its ties to archrival India and its disastrous rule of Kabul from 1992 to '96. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is blunt: "Their return would mean a return to anarchy and criminal killing." For its part, Iran, whose Muslims belong mainly to the Shi'ite branch of Islam, has backed members of the Northern Alliance representing Afghanistan's Shi'ite minority. On the sidelines of last week's meeting of the Organization of Islamic Conference in Qatar, Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi conferred with his Pakistani counterpart, Abdul Sattar, and outlined Tehran's minimum requirement...
...drugs or terrorism. Making matters worse, the banks taking out correspondent accounts are, in some cases, doing so for other banks that they know little about. The upshot: it might not be hard for bin Laden, who controls a Sudanese bank, to wire money to a friendly neighborhood bank branch in any U.S. city. Or for members of terrorist cells to make withdrawals...
Until last week, however, nobody had successfully used anthrax spores as weapons. Scientists' best idea of what such an attack might look like comes from a 1979 Soviet accident in Sverdlovsk. Dr. David Walker, chairman of the department of pathology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, was part of a U.S. team that visited Russia in 1992, just before Boris Yeltsin finally acknowledged the escape of anthrax from a bioweapons plant. Confronted with the evidence of an unprecedented 77 infections and 64 deaths, Walker and the others began thinking hard about the biology of anthrax...
...three-panel photograph entitled “Stella Searching” shows an elderly woman, rake in hand, staring upward while standing in a neat and orderly lawn. The middle panel pictures a single old and brittle leaf attached to a branch. The top panel depicts a gray storm cloud with a bit of sun peeking from behind it. The orderliness of the lawn suggests that Stella, the old woman, is attempting to control her life. Stella stares at the lone leaf, which represents her fate, in a vain attempt to master it. Its lengthy distance from Stella may point...
...have approached us to us to do physical print versions of the sparknotes and we have been considering that in terms of finding other distribution outlets for our product. It is just good business.” Bryant G. Mathews ‘02 speculates that if Sparknotes did branch out into book form “it would lose its distinctive character.” Yagan prefers to emphazise that there is a viable demographic for “an intelligent study guide on the market,” regardless of its interactive capabilities...