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From the tick-tock of the ill-fated flights, The 9/11 Report steps back to examine the origins of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, various U.S. administrations' treatment of the terror threat, and the way the terrorists organized the September 11 attacks. Though not always completely clear in the details, the gist comes through well enough: a complete failure by multiple administrations to take bin Laden and terrorism seriously. It includes such devastating truths as "[The attack] was carried out by a tiny group of people with trivial resources operating from one of the poorest, least industrial...
JAMES SWEITZER, PH.D. SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANTS Oak Park, Ill...
...heavy symbolic resonance as well. Post-World War II Los Angeles had about it a dark glamour. People were reading noirish novels (and seeing the movies based upon them) that had been created just prior to and during the war. The city was still digesting a huge and largely ill-favored population increase-people had flooded in to take jobs in booming wartime industry. It was policed by a force infinitely more corrupt than the norm and it had a thin, mysteriously wealthy upper crust capable-or so the fictioneers liked to think-of doing anything required to maintain...
When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning to consumers on Thursday about E. coli contamination in bagged spinach, it didn't come as a surprise to Michael Doyle. So far, about 100 people have fallen ill and one death has been connected to the dangerous E. coli 0157:H7 bacterial infection, and the director of food safety at the University of Georgia says that outbreaks like this one will only continue if produce manufacturers don't change their practices...
After leaving Harvard last year to work with Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in Washington D.C., she has now returned to Cambridge to work on her latest book about Sergio Vieira de Mello, the former United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, a book that she is trying to turn into a major motion picture directed by Terry George, the director of “Hotel Rwanda.” She will return to teaching this spring, taking on a freshman seminar and a Kennedy School class on U.S. foreign policy and human rights. She is also trying to establish...