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...contact with Abu Zubaydah during the U.S. military campaign against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Abu Zubaydah told al-Faruq that he should plan to return soon to Kuwait, but in the meantime, al-Faruq was to set in motion new terrorist missions. Knowing the U.S. Navy was scheduled to conduct joint exercises in the Surabaya harbor in late May, al-Faruq plotted a suicide attack against a U.S. ship, similar to the deadly al-Qaeda operation against the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen in 2000. He drafted a Somali operative named Gharib to help find Arabs willing to participate...
According to the 1968 Supreme Court decision Terry v. Ohio, police can conduct "stop-and-frisks" if they have a reasonable, particularized suspicion that criminal activity is afoot and a suspect is dangerous. But they cannot use these stops to go fishing for criminals in high-crime areas. Cops often fudge that distinction. "Police stop generally young males in high-drug-traffic areas based on very little suspicion all the time," says Bill Stuntz, a Harvard Law School professor. "The reality on the streets is some distance from what the law says." In Wilmington, the police insist that they abide...
...universal molecule that can be, in a sense, weaponized to attack any enzyme or receptor that plays a role in a disease's development. C-Sixty is assembling libraries of new buckyball-based molecules that it will test for potential therapeutic value. Early next year, it will conduct human trials of fullerene-based drugs for HIV and Lou Gehrig's disease. With about one-tenth the toxicity of the current HIV drug cocktails, the company's molecule targets new strains of the constantly mutating virus that are no longer susceptible to treatment. In the case of Lou Gehrig's disease...
...petition. He refused, citing “other priorities.” I can imagine few priorities more pressing than to justify to his students why he is willing to single out Israel for special criticism. Accordingly, I hereby request an invitation from the students of Winthrop House to conduct such a debate, either with Hanson present or with an empty chair on which the petition which he signed would be featured...
...Mughogho] was released on bail on Sept. 19, but there is still charge for ‘conduct likely to cause a breach of peace,’” wrote Janine Shors, the political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Lilongwe, in an e-mail...