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...bureaucratic post-mortems reveal, it is safe to assume that Congress will respond by adding billions of dollars to intelligence budgets that have been seriously denuded since the Cold War. But while more money may be essential to improving the nation's readiness to counter the terrorism threat, the crucial question remains how the money will actually be spent...
...While NATO's support improves the U.S. striking power and widens political and diplomatic consent for any counterstrike, the crucial allies in the battle against Bin Laden remain the governments and security services of the Islamic world - because it is intelligence, rather than air power or armor, that wins the war on terrorism...
University presidents have in the past been crucial players in reforms to the College, which operates as an independent unit within the University. Derek C. Bok, who served as president throughout the 1970s and 1980s, worked with then-Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky to form the Core Curriculum...
...fund work on some 60-odd existing colonies of human stem cells, and only those colonies, hit a serious snag last week with the revelation that virtually all stem cells are cultivated using embryonic mouse tissue. The mouse cells provide the human ones with nutrients and growth factors crucial to their survival and proliferation. The problem: under FDA rules, mouse-fed stem cells given to treat human patients would be considered a "xenotransplant," or tissue from another species. Although hundreds of patients have received liver and fetal cells from pigs without any sign of foreign infection, the agency could halt...
...Most economic forecasters still see a recovery "in train." Inventory reductions and job cuts will run their course eventually, and that crucial resurgence in capital investment will inevitably follow. But nobody?s calling it before the spring, and between now and then forecasters will be looking anxiously at unemployment reports to see when and if John Q. Consumer just gets too nervous about his paycheck to keep spending Saturdays with his credit card...