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...aside civil engineering and applied to be imam of the Denver Islamic Society. He got the job because of his grasp of the Koran and his ability to preach in English. "The people there liked his translations," Belgasem says. Two years later, he moved to San Diego to run the larger al-Ribat al-Islami mosque and enrolled in a master's program in education at San Diego State University. It was in San Diego that he had his first brushes with the law: intelligence officials have told TIME that al-Awlaki was twice detained for soliciting prostitutes...
...Diego, intelligence officials say, was also where al-Awlaki first made contact with jihadists. He was on the board of a charity run by a Yemeni associate of bin Laden; the FBI has said the charity was a fundraising front for al-Qaeda. Officials also say al-Awlaki met with a close associate of Omar Abdel Rahman, the "Blind Sheik" behind the 1993 attempt to bomb New York City's World Trade Center...
...Among the some 100 works he has studied, which include Egyptian sculptures and contemporary paintings, Franco is particularly fond of exploring those that depict ailments during the Renaissance. Among his conclusions: the Spanish child Margarita, in Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas, likely suffered from both a thyroid condition known as goiter and the genetic disorder linked to premature puberty, McCune-Albright syndrome. The unusually long, thin fingers of the young nobleman in Sandro Botticelli's Portrait of a Young Man, which is displayed at the National Gallery in Washington, indicates that the subject suffered from Marfan syndrome...
This past October, the NIH grant started to pay off. Scientists working jointly at a fledgling, largely Internet-based effort called the San Diego Epigenome Center announced with colleagues from the Salk Institute - the massive La Jolla, Calif., think tank founded by the man who discovered the polio vaccine - that they had produced "the first detailed map of the human epigenome...
Over coffee before a speech in a San Diego hotel, Whitman ticks through her plans. "Let's try to get a few things done at 100%, as opposed to trying to solve every problem," she says. To that end, she proposes three ideas: creating jobs by slashing taxes and regulation; improving the education system by grading schools and launching more charter schools; and reducing government spending, primarily by firing thousands of state workers. (She won't say which ones.) And - surprise - she intends to reap big savings from the state budget by eliminating "waste, fraud and abuse" through the introduction...