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...sharp disagreement on the war against terrorism that Israel is fighting belies the ulterior motives of those who wish to take the most extreme measures against it. Having been burned in the past by submitting to political pressures, most scientists see the recent boycott campaigns for what they are: crude anti-Semitic double standards that will only hurt scientific inquiry and academic freedom...
...brain, wondrous as it is, poses a special challenge for scientists. Mental disorders play out in a 3-lb. universe that is largely inaccessible without drastic--and extremely risky--surgery. At least it was until the 1970s, when the first crude pictures of the living brain were taken. Today researchers can peer into that universe with a variety of scanning technologies that capture the brain in action and send back beautifully detailed images that are the next best thing to being there...
...fissile material for one or two bombs, is poised to extract enough plutonium from the spent fuel to produce four to eight more within a matter of months. It is unknown whether North Korea has ever actually constructed a nuclear weapon. But given the relative simplicity of making a crude device, some U.S. analysts suspect that it has a bomb, albeit an untested...
...made money by trading paper instead of building businesses. He came by his views honestly, via Midland, Texas, where he had struggled and ultimately failed in the oil business in the 1980's, and had watched as investment bankers fled, taking their cash with them, as soon as crude prices began to plummet. As recently as last July, Bush was sharing his dim view of Wall Street with the world. "When I used to watch the stocks in Midland," he said, "I was somewhat skeptical about what was taking place on the floors of these exchanges. They...
...island nation of Sao Tome and Principe, which sits on perhaps 4 billion bbl. of crude, is also attracting foreign oilmen. These upstart oil-exporting nations join such established giants as Nigeria, which plans to increase its daily output from 1.9 million bbl. to more than 3 million bbl.; Angola, which wants to double its almost 1 million bbl. daily output; and Gabon, which is encouraging more deepwater exploration to prop up declining production. All this action makes the waters off West Africa one of the hottest places for oil exploration in the world. Says Al Stanton, an oil analyst...