Word: chronical
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...short term, the most critical mission for the U.S. military may be the one it helped perform in Kandahar last week--keeping Karzai alive. Two Afghan Cabinet ministers have been assassinated this year, and several others, including Karzai, have survived attempts. Given the country's ethnic rivalries and chronic warlordism, the loss of Karzai--a popular member of the majority Pashtuns--could send Afghanistan reeling back toward the chaos that bin Laden found so hospitable. "Karzai has no real power base of his own," says a diplomat in Kabul. "But as a Pashtun leader who has earned real respect...
...week ReNeuron, a Surrey-based biopharmaceutical company, announced that it had licensed a gene that would allow it to successfully stabilize human brain cells derived from fetuses and to proceed with treatments for different brain diseases. Eventually these could be used to combat Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, diabetes, chronic heart and kidney disease, liver failure, cancer and spinal-cord injury. Though stem cells can be obtained from adult tissue, scientists say they must also experiment with cells from fetuses and embryos if stem-cell research is to be translated into such specific therapies in humans. Anti-abortionists and some...
...Long War comes. It could be characterized by aging nation-states trying to fight off rising market states, with a virtual state entering into an unofficial alliance with one side or another. More likely it will see clashes between competing forms of market states. It may be a chronic war of low-intensity interventions--police actions on humanitarian grounds, to undergird states in which law has collapsed, or against terrorism. Or this war could be a series of regional cataclysms, perhaps between nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent or in Northeast Asia or the Middle East. The war could even...
...have seen in the Middle East. When we act unilaterally in defiance of our allies, we increase the likelihood of the third and potentially most dangerous sort of war--between regions and even great powers. But if we accept the responsibility of organizing coalitions to fight a chronic, low-intensity war such as the one we are fighting against al-Qaeda, we make bigger conflicts less likely. Virtual states like al-Qaeda are the potential enemy of all because they are the neighbors...
State investigators, who in mid-July were tipped off to the eerie coincidence, caution that it is too early to come to any conclusions. The fear, however, is that chronic wasting disease, a mad cow-like illness that affects wild game, may have jumped the so-called species barrier. The fatal disease, which makes animals listless, has been endemic in Colorado herds for decades and was spotted in Wisconsin deer in February. Particularly worrisome is the fact that the illness is caused by infectious agents called prions that are not destroyed by cooking...