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...York City trial may be a test case for the way justice is meted out to one of the major figures accused of running the terror organization. Siddiqui is a U.S.-trained, Pakistani neuroscientist charged with attempted murder for allegedly firing an M-4 automatic rifle at a group of U.S. soldiers and FBI agents in Afghanistan. Her case has been major news in much of the Muslim world - and a crush of journalists from Pakistan have been struggling to gain access to a trial hemmed in by security-conscious New York City officials. How the foreign press is able...
...does, it will not be a simple reaction to changing social mores. In 1970 the Census changed its black category from "Negro" to "Negro or Black." The Federal Government sent a form to every U.S. household and effectively said, We have a new way of thinking about this particular group of people. Census categories reflect perceptions. But they also forge them...
...destructive power comes not from winds or rain but from the bulge of seawater it pushes ahead of it and crashes into shore. If sea level rises, these so-called storm surges become more damaging. In order to put a dollar figure on how much more damaging, a group of scientists looked at climate models, hurricane databases and so-called catastrophe models that evaluate the potential destruction of storms in specific places. Then the researchers wove the information together to project what hurricane-driven storm surges might cost Americans 20 years from now. (Watch TIME's video "Picking...
...want it to be more of a discussion group,” says GSAS Dean for Student Affairs Garth O. McCavana, who added that the “numbers” regarding the class sizes were “not that important...
...Citizens United is a conservative nonprofit dedicated to getting the U.S. out of the U.N. and keeping the Clintons out of office. During the last presidential campaign, the group produced Hillary: The Movie and arranged to distribute it via video on demand using the corporation's money, rather than money from its related political action committee. The FEC ruled this a violation of campaign rules...