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...difficult to understand why, as the New York Times reported on Friday, the U.S. is eager for the U.N. to encourage Iraqi weapons scientists to take asylum in America and divulge the locations of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. The scientists and their families could then join “a witness protection program” planned for such defectors. Especially in these most urgent and time-constrained of circumstances, weapons inspection relies on a kind of educated guesswork; inside information could eliminate much of this uncertainty and mean the difference between peace...
...hear me now?" Not too well if you're using a cell phone near the top of Massachusetts' Mount Watatic. That's because state officials, eager to protect this pristine peak from unsightly antennas, agreed to buy it for $2.5 million last summer. In the town-by-town battle between improving cell-phone coverage and preserving precious skylines, few places have had the resolve--not to mention the resources--of Mount Watatic's neighbors. But such aversion to tower building is becoming the norm in cities and suburbs across the country. From Lakeland, Fla., to Winnetka, Ill., more and more...
...Paris. "Total assets now managed by ifis are close to $300 billion, while Islamic equity funds and off-balance-sheet investment accounts are conservatively estimated between $15 billion and $30 billion." Taken together, that's roughly the equivalent of Russia's gross domestic product. No wonder Western banks are eager to capitalize on this lucrative market. While Bahrain's Noriba is operating exclusively under Shari'a principles, several others - HSBC, Citibank, Commerzbank and BNP Paribas - provide Shari'a-compliant services along with conventional ones. UBS won't disclose its projected future profits in Bahrain. But Noriba ceo Toufic Kanafani says...
Filled to the brim with eager Matmos fans, the small auditorium had been transformed from a dreary review session cave into an impromptu audiovisual showcase, with the room’s projector screen looming above racks of mixers, keyboards and laptops. Stranger sounds probably never emerged from Science Center D. Guest artist Keith Fullerton Whitman, best known as glitchcore renegade Hrvatski, began his half-hour set with lo-fi guitar twangs that quickly dissolved into a hypnotic ocean of swirling sonic detritus, electronic squalls, static bombs, gurgles and crackles...