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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...
...hearings into intelligence lapses attest, there's much to fix in Washington. Let the record show that Senator GEORGE VOINOVICH is not sitting idle. Last week the Ohio Republican took a principled stand against a Backstreet Boy. Irritated by the flood of celebrities testifying in Congress (Julia Roberts and Christie Brinkley in the past few months), Voinovich boycotted testimony by KEVIN RICHARDSON before the Environment and Public Works Committee. Kentucky native Richardson, who founded an environmental group, was asked by Democrat Joe Lieberman to speak on the dangers of mountaintop mining. Lieberman claimed that Richardson was "knowledgeable" because of flights...
...homes were washed away when the Zeyzoun dam collapsed, releasing around 71 million cu m of water, inundating villages in the al-Ghab area 350 km north of Damascus. At least 20 people died and more than 8,000 hectares of crops and power lines were swept away by flood water and mud. Many villagers fled to higher ground after they saw cracks developing in the six-year-old dam, which may have been overfilled by 5 million cu m because of exceptionally heavy winter rains. BURUNDI Rebels Fight On Rebels from the Hutu-dominated National Liberation Forces (NLF) attacked...
...Staff writer Joseph P. Flood can be reached at flood@fas.harvard.edu...
...Despite Summers’ assurances, the only improvement made in faculty-student interaction has been an increase in the number of freshman seminars offered. And while the expansion of this program is certainly laudable, the reforms began well before Summers’ term. Instead of the flood of newly-tenured faculty that many had hoped for, the past year has seen the departure of several of Harvard’s most famous professors...