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...former prison guard with hooded eyes and a smart buzz cut who, at over 6 ft. tall, towers over most Chinese, Lu might seem a tough nut to crack. But when Ho approached Lu and his colleagues three years ago with a proposal to collaborate on vaccine trials, Ho was surprised by the response he got. They were eager to cooperate, he recalls, but had little interest in a vaccine. They were more concerned with helping those already struggling with the disease. "We wanted to push the vaccine," says Ho, "and they wanted to get more treatment for patients, more...
...Associates begin trickling in from dinner, suitably caffeinated for the night ahead. Irin sports an incongruous “School of Hard Knocks” sweatshirt; Mollie carries her laptop in the hope of taking a crack at that paper; Amelia wears the Uggs she condemned in Bad Trend Alert the week before...
...HEARTS AND MINDS: U.S. efforts to crack down on militants are also turning ordinary Iraqis from friends into foes...
...tactic may backfire. The Saudi bombings pushed the complacent royal regime to crack down hard. In the past six months, Saudi police say they have foiled at least four plots, including a threat against the Holy Mosque in Mecca and a plan to assassinate leading Saudi writers and intellectuals who oppose Islamic extremism. More than 400 arrests have produced a wealth of information showing how al-Qaeda is honeycombed throughout the kingdom. Police raids have uncovered explosives, caches of rifles and operational necessities like computers, cell phones, counterfeit passports and disguises. Officers even found a stash of dresses and wigs...
...handled by local police, they often receive assistance (communications, Jeeps, night-vision goggles and even seed money to set up sting operations) from the U.S. and the E.U. The U.S. Secret Service this summer opened a regional office in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, as part of an effort to crack down on what was, until recently, the second-biggest source of fake U.S. currency in the world. "The Bulgarians have helped us tremendously," a senior U.S. official told TIME. "We work hand in hand." That close relationship is largely thanks to Bulgaria's top cop, General Boyko Borissov, who took...