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...Armed with this intelligence, Moroccan agents began combing identity rolls, immigration records and other sources in a manhunt for Zuher. The breakthrough came when they discovered the family of Zuher's late wife, who provided his real name and gave the description for a composite sketch that police circulated throughout the country. Within three days, sources say, an informant had positively sighted Al Tbaiti. Intensive surveillance of his movements eventually led police to his two accomplices. In addition, TIME has learned, authorities arrested three Moroccan women as possible accomplices: Tbaiti's wife Bahija Haidour, his sister-in-law Houria Haidour...
...Though pleased with the breakthrough, the affair is troubling for Moroccans. Terrorism and religious extremism is rare in the Kingdom, the only notable violence in recent years coming in an isolated attack on a Marrakech hotel by French Muslim militants of Algerian origin that killed two Spanish tourists in 1994. But given the ease with which the al Qaeda operatives slipped into the country, officials fear that other cells may be operating as well. Moreover, they are concerned that al Qaeda may be receiving assistance from local radicals who are sympathetic to but not part of Bin Laden's network...
Discovering this basic neural circuitry turned out to be a key breakthrough in understanding anxiety. It showed that the anxiety response isn't necessarily caused by an external threat; rather, it may be traced to a breakdown in the mechanism that signals the brain to stop responding. Just as a car can go out of control due to either a stuck accelerator or failed brakes, it's not always clear which part of the brain is at fault. It may turn out that some anxiety disorders are caused by an overactive amygdala (the accelerator) while others are caused...
...competition will be stiff. Besides San Francisco, the tournament field also includes Santa Clara, which played in the national championship game as recently as 1999. But that doesn’t keep Harvard from being utterly convinced that it can win the whole thing. On the heels of a breakthrough 2001 season, Kerr has the men’s soccer program sitting pretty...
...started her season with a respectable performance of 51.87 meters, which was nothing spectacular. But a week later, in Harvard’s only home meet of the year, Grant had a breakthrough performance—55.80 meters. Two weeks later, Grant exceeded that effort with a 56.82-meter performance against Ivy rival Yale...