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...build an atomic bomb. Suppose, moreover, that it manages to do so, and that there is no military intervention in Iran of the kind that Israel visited upon Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981. What would happen next? Somehow or other, in all likelihood, others would seek to contain Iran, in the way that the Soviet Union was contained during the cold war. But if that was to be the fate of Iran, who would do the containing? To ask the question is to answer it. "There is an assumption," says Michael Mandelbaum, of the School of Advanced International...
...Control in 2001 to launch the International Emerging Infections Program (IEIP). Under the program, Thailand has obtained advanced laboratory technology from the U.S., as well as training for Thai epidemiologists and volunteers. That makes for faster reaction times when the disease strikes, and "speed is essential in trying to contain any outbreak," says Dr. Sonja Olsen, the IEIP's acting director. In rural hospitals in Sa Kaeo province, which borders Cambodia, patients who are initially diagnosed with pneumonia - the sort of severe respiratory disease that could be confused with bird flu - are now immediately tested for bird flu. Their blood...
...knows nothing about the group's well-known opposition to coeducation and affirmative action. Specter said his aides searched more than four boxes of files, accompanied by Kennedy's staff. "Judge Alito's name never appeared in any document," Specter said before questioning of Alito resumed. "The files contain canceled checks for subscriptions to CAP's magazine, Prospect, but none from Judge Alito. The files contain dozens of articles, including investigative exposes written at the height of the organization's prominence, but Samuel Alito's name is nowhere to be found in any of them...
...leakers. The Justice Department is investigating who gave away the NSA secrets. While such probes rarely succeed, the department's new willingness to subpoen a reporters and their records could change that. And the CIA has a group of mostly retired officers on contract to read news stories that contain classified material and try to uncover their sources. This may be the toughest spook work. Over the years, the unit, nicknamed "the leak chasers" by some agency hands, has been able to finger only a few talkers. But it has an enthusiastic?and active?backer in Goss. He told TIME...
...report had it keying on the 5’8 point guard from Los Angeles, she struggled, shooting zero-of-four in the first half.Freshman forward Katie Rollins also suffered from defensive lapses in the first half. She and 6’7 freshman Emma Moretzsohn largely failed to contain Dartmouth’s low-post offense, which had been weakened by the loss of star center Elise Morrison early in the year with a season-ending injury. Harvard missed defensive stalwart Christiana Lackner, a junior who was injured in practice on Friday.Dartmouth forward Sydney Scott?...