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...Moving from pawns to players, Harvard chess expert Lorin F. Deland dreamt up that famous football play, The Flying Wedge. Picture the Mighty Ducks flying V. But instead of quacking hockey players it was snarling Puritans.The 1892 Game was the first and only time the play ever appeared on the field; it was banned the following year because of its brutality...
...embassy in Nairobi. Students were asked to learn all about demolition, artillery and light-weapon use, but they were also expected to be familiar with the fatwas of al-Qaeda, including those that called for violence against Muslim rulers who contradicted Islam--a basic Takfiri tenet. French terrorism expert Jacquard describes Takfiri indoctrination this way: "Takfir is like a sect: once you're in, you never get out. The Takfir rely on brainwashing and an extreme regime of discipline to weed out the weak links and ensure loyalty and obedience from those taken as members...
...kill unknown numbers of people and contaminate an unknown stretch of real estate. Because the bomb would require no special skill to build, it's perhaps the most feared of the terrorists' nuclear choices. "They don't kill as many people," says Morton Bremer Maerli, a nuclear-terror expert at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, "but as a weapon of terror, they may be just as effective...
ADAM COHEN has been covering the murky Osama bin Laden money trail and the way al-Qaeda funds itself. He's become an expert on the shadowy Islamic banking system called hawala, in which nothing is written down. Talk to him on Wednesday...
Goodall, the neophyte animal behaviorist whom famed anthropologist Louis Leakey dared to send into the jungle, would become the reigning expert on chimpanzee behavior. Her discoveries about man's close cousins, showing that chimps made and used tools (most famously, adapting sticks to hunt for termites), electrified the academic world. But now, many books and National Geographic specials later, she is more than a famous naturalist. She has become a scientific saint and the recipient of many honors, including the Gandhi-King Award for Nonviolence, just given to her by the Millennium World Peace Summit...