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...prowess, especially since the country ejected international weapons inspectors in December and withdrew from the Non-Proliferation Treaty in January. The CIA-whose spokesperson declined to comment for this story-earlier concluded that North Korea had built at least two nuclear devices. But information from the scientist has helped confirm that the program is much further along than that, intelligence that could give the U.S. an edge in future talks with the North. "It's one thing to make one or two (devices)," said the U.S. official. "It's another thing to have a process in place to make hundreds...
...team of Chinese microbiologists last week confirmed that the civet could indeed produce a unique effect on the human body: it might cause SARS. They've also extracted the virus from a species of wild dog and found antibodies?evidence of an earlier infection?in a Chinese badger. Those results probably confirm the long-dreaded notion that overly close cohabitation of man and animal is brewing up new, fatal plagues. Hong Kong's bird flu of 1997 was just such a creation: a virus harmless in waterfowl that jumped species to infect chickens and then mutated again, killing six people...
...Ministry of Defense said Lieut. Colonel Tim Collins, who became a national icon after an eve-of-battle speech in Iraq in which he urged his troops to be magnanimous in victory, is under investigation following accusations that he assaulted and threatened Iraqi prisoners and civilians. Separately, the MoD confirmed that an inquiry is ongoing into assertions that Collins' unit suffered from a culture of extreme bullying. What Did We Do? NORWAY Widespread bafflement greeted the news that the country had been named a terrorist target in an audiotape attributed to Ayman al-Zawahiri. The al-Qaeda...
...They will have to convince the public that they are as committed to national defense, and to the judicious use of military force, as the Republicans are. They will have to shed their congenital pessimism. They can't just rant against the Administration and hope for bad news to confirm their prejudices. They will have to propose firm, reasonable policy alternatives that are easy to understand and defend. If they oppose the Bush tax cuts, they will have to lay out, in some detail, what they would do instead...
...whips and whatever—is nerd sex. If you have any competency with calculus, I’d urge you take a 50s-level math course, if only to spit serious game, get serious ass and e-mail me (via rubin@fas) the details, so I can either confirm or dis-confirm my theory...