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Several Brigham surgeons compared the current situation to the media firestorm that ensued when professors in Harvard’s Afro-American studies department were considering departing for Princeton...
...whether the militants in the various Islamist networks are going to continue to risk their necks for bin Laden will depend not simply on their anger at America, but on whether the Saudi terrorist leader looks like a winning horse. And if he manages to survive the Afghan firestorm, his propaganda machine will be working overtime to restate his claim to the title of America's nemesis. Which is why, for the U.S., getting bin Laden is not simply personal; it has become a political imperative...
...arrest has sparked a firestorm of controversy over the as-yet-untested Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)--and over how far law enforcement should go to protect intellectual property like e-books. The case has provoked the first big showdown between two camps: the programmers who want to bypass security restrictions and the publishers who want to protect the words they sell...
...arrest has sparked a firestorm of controversy over the as-yet-untested Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)--and over how far law enforcement should go to protect intellectual property like e-books. The case has provoked the first big showdown between two camps: the programmers who want to bypass security restrictions and the publishers who want to protect the words they sell...
When the service proposed banning vehicles from 47,000 more acres--adding to the 784,000 acres already closed off--a political firestorm ensued. Colorado Congress members and their snowmobiling constituents accused the service (an agency usually criticized as being a caddy for timber companies) of putting ferns before humans. The White River Conservation Project criticized the plan as too little too late and called for blocking off 300,000 additional acres. "Red Table is one of the finest undisturbed mixed forest stands in the Rocky Mountains, and making it a wilderness area would protect that," says the project...