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...support it, was a key factor behind last week's decision by FBI officials to warn its 56 field offices and federal terrorism task forces of the possibility of terrorist attacks on U.S. shopping malls and supermarkets. Beyond the increasingly pessimistic analysis on the part of U.S. officials, the impetus for the latest warning--quieter than the one four days earlier alerting Americans to possible attacks on Eastern-seaboard banks--was bolstered by comments from captured al-Qaeda strategist Abu Zubaydah, the source for the previous bank warning. Arabic-speaking CIA and FBI personnel continue to interrogate Abu Zubaydah...
...Minute Men’s goal is accomplished if their audience has learned something over the course of many years of reenactments. But what exactly do these events teach? “What it can do is be an impetus for people to go read more about the period,” says Minute Man Sam Coppe. Children can be even more affected by the reenactments. “When you stand in front of people wearing your costume, there is learning that goes on without even talking,” McCarthy says. “The only thing...
...afford to wait for every research institution to react to its own lapses. That's the impetus for a sweeping overhaul of the OHRP, designed by director Greg Koski--with advice from a newly motivated Johns Hopkins--to make the agency more aggressive in protecting human subjects. It's also behind legislation that will soon be moving through both houses of Congress. Representative Diana DeGette of Colorado will introduce a bill this week that is aimed at finally giving humans the same legislative protections that animals receive; the rules will apply to all research on humans, not just federally funded...
...impetus of the Arab caucus and other third-world countries, the ICC will face a torrent of accusations against Israel and the United States. International organizations where small states have as large a role as major powers create comical scenarios such as Syria replacing the U.S. on a Human Rights Commission. The U.S. should not be party to more of this nonsense than it already...
...only hurt the Iraqi civilian population and not its government. If the United States attacks Iraq under the guise of terrorism, it is a misuse of our power, an abuse of our foreign policies, and an insult to the intelligence of Americans and Iraqis alike. America’s impetus for a full-on assault on Iraq ended with the Gulf War; it cannot use a decade-old grudge to push America into more combat...