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...publish anything, I'll get kicked out of a job," he says. "And yet they allow the extremists to get away with anything they want." The U.S. has provided little support to those moderate voices inside Saudi Arabia, largely to avoid doing anything that would undermine the regime and disrupt the world's energy market. But that's no longer good enough. As Sept. 11 showed, the security of the U.S. depends on more than cheap...
...nation's water utilities are preparing to defend themselves against possible terrorist attacks on pumping stations and pipes that serve its cities and suburbs. The effort, water officials tell TIME, comes after the discovery of documents in Afghanistan that indicate al-Qaeda terrorists have been investigating ways to disrupt the U.S. water supply on a massive scale. An FBI warning was confirmed last week by Tom Curtis, an executive of the American Water Works Association, whose member utilities supply water to 80% of the U.S. population. He says that while no specific plans to attack a water system have been...
...Harvard senior said she was “intimidated” by Felton and therefore did not want to disrupt his plans while her friend Chase was living with...
Conventional wisdom once held that a terror attack on Israeli civilians on a day when diplomats were meeting to discuss the fate of the Middle East was a deliberate attempt by extremists to disrupt the peace process. That theory may no longer apply...
CRICKET Numbers Game Next year's world cup in South Africa faced disruption from the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League, after the country's United Cricket Board (UCB) said it would abandon quotas for the selection of black players in national and senior provincial cricket teams. Previously, the inclusion of four black players on each team was mandatory, but early this month the ucb said that changes within the sport had made such quotas redundant-an idea supported by several of South Africa's black players. But the anc Youth League called the move "sad and shameful" and vowed...