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...tremendous" in its support. Sixteen months after he was assaulted, Cass - a nonscientist - was honored by the Queen for services to medical research. "We happen to be the target now," says Cass, "but it could be someone else tomorrow. The government knows that." That knowledge has helped fuel the newest animal-testing controversy in Cambridgeshire. In May 2002, Prime Minister Tony Blair acknowledged "concerns about public-safety dangers and unlawful protests" at the proposed university primate lab site, then declared: "We cannot have vital work stifled simply because it is controversial." Says Mark Matfield, executive director of the Research Defence...
...city of Basra are stalling on Iraq's rutted, cratered roads. What's at stake is more than just another failed growing season's crops, which include maize, wheat and barley. Agriculture is Iraq's second largest economic sector and largest employer. If farmers have no work, that might fuel recruitment into the ranks of Iraqis battling occupying troops. "The Army regards this as a security issue," says the Agriculture Department official, who just returned from Iraq and is worried that the country's farmers might take to the streets. "It does not want the violence to spill over into...
...material seized in a police sting was not weapons-grade, nor was it suitable for making a dirty bomb. Two Slovaks were arrested on Nov. 14 in the eastern city of Brno after allegedly trying to sell to an undercover agent 3 kg of what appeared to be nuclear fuel rods from the former Soviet Union for 5600,000. The seizure, one of the largest in the world this year, rekindled fears of a terrorist market for this kind of material. All Polled Out SERBIA-MONTENEGRO Serbia's ruling coalition dissolved itself after its candidate in the presidential ballot...
...music is Hornby’s creative fuel. “Music is energy. I hear something in the creativity of a song and I want to convert it into words,” he said in an interview earlier this month. When asked at a reading at First Parish Church in Cambridge why he doesn’t play music, Hornby responded, “I like music too much to want to do that...
...anything, the injuries, the graduations and departures and, most especially, the doubts have only added fuel to the fire for this youthful bunch...