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...victory--in the Middle East, for example--could induce him to stay a short while longer. By the same token, the aide stresses that Powell is determined to serve out the entire term--even if the U.S. launches an invasion of Iraq, which Powell has fought to delay or derail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's Team: Colin Powell: Planning for an Exit | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

...ambush on a busload of Israeli settlers on the West Bank left seven dead. But although the latest attacks coincided with Mideast talks in New York between representatives of the U.S., the European Union, Russia and the United Nations, their purpose is unlikely to have been simply to derail diplomacy - because neither the extremists nor anyone else in the Middle East have much reason to suspect that the current round of talks will have much significance for the situation on the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talks and Terror in the Middle East | 7/16/2002 | See Source »

...home, and the Iraq campaign abroad. With summer's end comes the Jewish holiday season and the U.S. domestic electoral campaign, and then Israeli party primaries and, supposedly, Palestinian elections and (many in the region suspect) a U.S. invasion of Iraq. So, for those Palestinians traditionally inclined to derail the negotiations, it's evident that this particular peace train isn't likely to leave the station any time soon. Which means it's unlikely that Tuesday's Quartet meeting featured in the motives for the latest attacks. Indeed, Israeli authorities point out that their forces have successfully interdicted scores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talks and Terror in the Middle East | 7/16/2002 | See Source »

Current government officials who believe Bush is on a “disaster course,” he says, have an obligation to leak secret information that would derail the administration’s policies...

Author: By Catherine E. Shoichet, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Government Insider Who Got the Story Out | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

...genes that set the stage for autistic disorders could derail developing brains in a number of ways. They could encode harmful mutations like those responsible for single-gene disorders--cystic fibrosis, for instance, or Huntington's disease. They could equally well be garden-variety variants of normal genes that cause problems only when they combine with certain other genes. Or they could be genes that set up vulnerabilities to any number of stresses encountered by a child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secrets of Autism | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

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