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...would be in charge of "liaison" relationships with foreign intelligence services - long the treasured turf of the CIA - which have historically produced much of the most important intelligence, according to a former senior CIA official. Negroponte, Hayden said, "is aggressively overseeing our relationships with foreign intelligence services to help detect and prevent attacks against ourselves and our friends and allies.... As the head of our intelligence community, he routinely meets with foreign intelligence leaders, and he has visited many of our major allies" - an activity that comes easily to Negroponte as a career diplomat and ambassador...
Toll-like receptors (TLRs), which lie on the surface of certain white blood cells, serve to detect invading viruses and bacteria. They then cause the production of cytokine proteins, which activate other immune cells against the infection...
...What it is referring to is the fact that Nigerians often "squeeze"- crumple - Naira notes to detect fakes. If a crumpled note thrown on a flat surface immediately starts to un-crumple it's the real deal. "Spraying" Naira is also common at birthdays, weddings and in the thousands of evangelical churches across the country. Generous guests or churchgoers peel off notes from wads of cash, tossing them towards a wedding couple or priest. Tradition dictates that these notes are not picked up until after the celebrations are over, so they are often stomped into the ground...
...headlines haven't dented job seekers' desire to dissemble even as employers have grown increasingly able to detect deception. InfoLink Screening Services, a background-checking company, estimates that 14% of job applicants in the U.S. lie about their education on their résumés. (A common boast by guys: that they played on the college football team.) ResumeDoctor.com a résumé-writing business, found that of 1,000 résumés it vetted over six months, 43% contained one or more "significant inaccuracies...
...takes about 30 minutes. But the absence of an effective treatment for MND - of which there are some 1,400 sufferers in Australia - raises the question of whether there's much to be gained from early diagnosis. Kiernan and Vucic are adamant that there is. Their procedure can detect the disease in its very early stages, they believe, when symptoms amount to no more than stiffness, weakness or cramping in the hands - up to a year before a clinician relying on traditional methods could hope to make a diagnosis. Starting patients earlier on riluzole, which works by blocking the effects...