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...center is trying to do what it could not do before: pluck obscure bits of information from the flood of often irrelevant or insignificant data and connect the dots to foil a major new attack. CIA scientists are investigating exotic supercomputer programs and artificial intelligence that might help analysts link hundreds of thousands of names, places and bank accounts. Teams have even been sent to pick the brains of Hollywood scriptwriters who dream up far-fetched terror spectaculars. When the analysts return to Langley, they comb their databases to see if al-Qaeda has the capability to carry out such...
...farmers such as B.J. Bailey of Oregon, Mo., whose 2,500 acres border the river, fear that any change will inundate acreage at planting time. "We're always at the mercy of Mother Nature here, but to have to fight a man-made flood too just isn't right," he says. For barge operators like Don Huffman, higher water means more income: each additional foot of draft allows boats to haul 600 more tons of cargo. "Without consistent flows, there is no navigation," he says...
...Staff writer Joseph P. Flood can be reached at flood@fas.harvard.edu...
About 3,700 inmates now sit on death row. How many may be retarded? No one is sure, but states that formerly allowed them to be executed are bracing for a flood of petitions claiming mental incapacity. In Texas the Dallas Morning News' review of the state's 455 death-row inmates identified at least 20 who raised mental deficiency as an issue at trial or on appeal. North Carolina adopted a ban on executing the retarded last August. Ken Rose, the executive director of the North Carolina Center for Death Penalty Litigation, says that of the 213 condemned killers...
...world's most widely syndicated columnist; in Chicago. The elder twin sister of advice maven "Abigail Van Buren," Lederer dispensed a daily dose of common sense to 90 million readers. Homey but frank, she endorsed masturbation as a safe alternative to abstinence and in 1971 cued a flood of letters to Congress urging federal support of cancer research. Before Oprah and Sally, there was Ann--the nation's big sister...