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...Camp Peary, new SOG recruits also hone their paramilitary skills, like sharpshooting with various kinds of weapons, setting up landing zones in remote areas for agency aircraft and attacking enemy sites with a small force. Some are sent to Delta Force's secret compound at Fort Bragg to learn highly specialized counterterrorism techniques, such as how to rescue a fellow agent held hostage...
...arrival of demonstrators holding banners and shouting slogans usually marks the start of the working day for UN arms inspectors in Iraq. Then come the journalists, grabbing pictures of the UN team's white Toyota Land Cruisers leaving their compound, before hopping into their own cars to give chase. The convoy quickly grows as Iraqi intelligence officials, also driving white Land Cruisers, join the procession. When the team reaches its destination, it is usually greeted with suspicion and anger. And they usually return to base empty-handed...
FRENCH FRIES Cooking potatoes and other starchy foods at high temperatures can trigger the formation of acrylamide, a compound that has been shown to cause cancer in lab rats. Scientists also know there are toxic consequences to breathing the acrylamide in cigarette smoke. So are chips and fries even worse for us than we thought or just the latest food fright? A report by the American Council on Science and Health concludes that we can relax. There is no evidence that acrylamide, when consumed in food, poses a cancer risk. But all the other reasons for going easy on deep...
...talk to your physician about it," says Dr. Christopher Portier, associate director of the NTP. Among the 14 other substances to make the NTP list: wood dust, common in sawmills and furniture-or cabinetmaking workshops; broad-spectrum ultraviolet radiation, from the sun or tanning beds; and IQ, a compound found in cigarette smoke that is also formed when foods like meats and eggs are cooked in high heat. For more detail, find the report online at niehs.nih.gov --By Sora Song
...sheer chutzpah, nothing can top the final exhibit, Zhang Hongtu's Studs. A big, red door, slyly reminiscent of the crimson gates that once kept the Forbidden City forbidden and now protect the Party leadership compound. But in Zhang's work, the door's elaborate iron studs have become phallic pipes frozen in, as the artist delicately puts it, "states of inadequate erection." So much for vigorous leadership. But if the First Guangzhou Triennial is any indication, China's experimental art scene is more virile than ever...