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...fire warheads loaded with conventional explosives or perhaps chemical agents at Israel or his Arab neighbors. Even if all these pre-emptive measures are taken, Saddam could still try a crude pre-emptive strike of his own, using chem or bio agents against U.S. forces as they gather. But chemical weapons are hard to control on the battlefield; shifting winds could blow them back on Iraqi soldiers. U.S. forces will go into battle in full protective gear. And the Administration says it plans to warn Iraqi generals and colonels who might order the use of bio-chem weapons that they...
...high-tech gadgetry, battlefield savvy and an increased use of precision-guided munitions made American power irresistible. "The bombs had a big effect," says Wahid Ahmed, 18, a Pakistani who fought with the Taliban in Kunduz and now languishes in a jail in Sheberghan, northern Afghanistan. "We couldn't gather in large groups because that made a target. We were waiting for our comrades to tell us what to do, but there was nothing to do but hide...
Anagrams have developed into a pastime and tradition in Dunster, where a handful of word-lovers frequently gather together to make friends, make enemies and enhance their vocabularies. Legend has it that the game of anagrams was invented by those who yearned for a challenge greater than Scrabble, but it failed to garner the same popularity. It survives today wherever true enthusiasts feel compelled to pass the torch on to neo-nerds. Self-described “aging permutator” Daniel Bosch, an Expos preceptor and a former resident tutor of Dunster House, introduced the game to the House...
Because there are so few genetic variations between individual humans, until now researchers had been unable to gather data on genetic change...
...here's one important security measure the report failed to mention: check your hard drive for spyware. Spyware is any kind of program installed in your computer without your consent to gather information about you or your organization. A typical piece of spyware will watch over your shoulder while you browse the Web, record your mouse clicks and broadcast all that information back to another computer (ostensibly for marketing purposes). It's part of a class of increasingly surreptitious software that includes adware (which serves up commercials you didn't ask for--as if pop-up ads weren't enough...