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...haven't defeated the weapon. You've caused it to deploy." STEVE RAMBERG, chief scientist at the Office of Naval Research, on the dangers of bombing Iraq's chemical and biological weapons stockpiles...
Murphy’s flexibility has helped the Harvard coaching staff usher in a new cadre of defensive backs without losing much confidence in its defense. Harvard’s system is not unlike the one used by the New England Patriots, who frequently deploy three safeties in a package head coach Bill Belichick calls the “Big Nickel.” Sophomore Brian Niemczak, a safety in high school, will play the weak-side linebacker slot, while senior Xavier Goss takes over at free safety...
...being made by the Bush administration for "regime change." But having taken to his new role as a peace activist with the same rock-jawed vehemence as he brought to his previous role as Saddam's accuser, he's likely to find himself in the coming weeks forced to deploy it once again in defense of his claims of consistency...
...favor of the government-allied National Conference that eventually touched off a separatist insurgency that has cost 36,500 lives in 13 years. It is this rebellion, brutally suppressed by New Delhi and vigorously supported by Pakistan, that dominates South Asian politics and prompted the nuclear-armed neighbors to deploy hundreds of thousands of troops along their border in recent months. "They've got so much tied up in staring each other out over this little piece of ground," says one Western diplomat in the region. "And this year it's been getting worse...
...international law and could open up terrifying scenarios for abuse. "This is patently quite dangerous and irresponsible," says human-rights activist Steve Wright, who, as director of the Omega Foundation, works with Amnesty International to monitor nonlethal weapons. "What the U.S. invents today, others, including the torturing states, will deploy tomorrow." Just how much is that magic rubber bullet worth to us? Maybe some science fiction should remain fictional...