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...trial may help investigators disrupt the al-Qaeda organization in Europe. But Françoise Rudetski - president of victims' defense association sos-Attentats, one of the civil parties in the Bensaïd case - stresses that everything experts and investigators may say about unfolding plots is of little import if they can't punish terrorists who have already acted. "Bensaïd's behavior inflicts additional wounds on his victims, and is an insult to everyone who values life," she comments. "This man must never be allowed to hurt anyone again." Chances are that he won't. But there...
...were planted in Zambia, cross-fertilization among crop strains would almost certainly cause Zambian grain harvests to contain at least some GM kernels. The presence of genetically altered grain in the nation’s harvest would prevent any Zambian grain from being shipped to European countries because of import bans on GM food, thus depriving Zambia of its principal export market and seriously damaging the long-term health of the Zambian agricultural economy...
...searches out nukes. He can field more than 15 IAEA professionals from 11 countries, with possible help from 15 outside experts, who monitor all stages of the nuclear fuel cycle by looking for 40 specific components and analyzing soil and water samples, as well as checking on dual technologies, import-export controls and nuclear smuggling...
...Cuba's struggling economy, eggs are often a luxury for many families. But they might be more plentiful if the government could import them more cheaply from the nearby U.S. - which has kept an economic embargo against the communist island for four decades. So it was little wonder that Cuban President Fidel Castro made a point of dropping by the American Egg Board's stand at the Havana food exposition that started yesterday. "How fast can you make them?" he asked New Yorker Howard Kelmer, 64, who is the Board's senior representative - and who holds the Guinness Book...
...issue and starting to make these changes is significant," says David Morton, head of the World Food Program in Pyongyang. Skeptics suggest North Korean leader Kim Jong Il may be adjusting prices to curb the flourishing black market. A more plausible explanation: persistent food shortages and the need to import fertilizer, fuel and other commodities make it imperative that North Korea develop a functioning economy. The hermit country seems at last to be joining the real world...