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January 1980 The CIA begins supplying money and weapons to Afghan mujahedin fighting the Soviets, using Pakistani intelligence as a conduit. The U.S. also urges Saudi Arabia to donate money and volunteers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The CIA's Secret Army: Coups, Killings And Dirty Tricks | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

...HORIZON Researchers are exploring a similar technique that sends an electrical current through the vagus nerve--a major conduit wiring the heart and intestines--which then delivers it to the brain. Another approach, called regional transcranial magnetic stimulation, uses an electric coil shaped like a figure eight to create a magnetic field inside the pre-frontal cortex, which plays a key role in mood regulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Depression: What You Can Do | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...have tried to reassure them when we met with them that we regard them as the major conduit through which guides come to us,” McGrath Lewis added...

Author: By Alexander J. Blenkinsopp, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Key No Longer To Run Tours | 8/16/2002 | See Source »

College counselors at Harvard’s feeder schools—high schools that routinely send large numbers of students to the College—are nearly unanimous in characterizing the Z-list as Harvard’s preferred conduit for qualified legacy candidates who don’t make the first...

Author: By Dan Rosenheck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Back Door to the Yard | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

...destined for southern Italy), engineers, computer programmers, bankers and financial managers - these are the new faces in the trenches of organized crime. Chain-smoking in his cluttered Palermo office, top anti-Mafia prosecutor Antonio Ingroia explains the pattern. A die-hard mafioso contacts a "mafioso businessman," who is the conduit to a "legitimate" businessman, who provides the ultimate cover to launder money through real enterprises all the way up to the stock market. The network stretches from Palermo to Milan to Switzerland, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein. "It's a chain," Ingroia says. "In our opinion, they are guilty of crimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet The Modern Mob | 6/2/2002 | See Source »

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