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...flourishing assortment of insurgents. U.S. forces have abdicated power in Fallujah, been chased out of Ramadi and Samarra, and are scrambling to keep hold of Baqubah, Tikrit and Mosul. Even in Baghdad, gunmen have turned areas of the capital into deadly no-go zones. While U.S. and Iraqi officials insist they have the firepower to contain the violence, the agonizing search for a way out in Najaf was the latest reminder that military might isn't enough to pacify the insurgents sufficiently for a homegrown government to take root. "This is not solely about the Iraqi government and Muqtada...
...regime?and ultimately to topple it. Says Gordon Flake, a North Korea expert at the Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs in Washington: "The North Koreans aren't just paranoid to think that calls for improvements in human rights are synonymous with calls for regime change." U.S. lawmakers insist, however, that the legislation is meant only to address a humanitarian crisis. Says Congressman Jim Leach, the House bill's co-sponsor: "If it is such an embarrassment [to Pyongyang], they might want to move to treat their people better...
...Huang, in turn, considers Western research standards too strict. He says some Americans insist his results will remain inconclusive until he conducts a double-blind study, which would mean operating on some patients but not injecting them with the fetal cells that could help them. "Even if it were legal, it's unethical," he says. And he rejects the idea that a lack of experimental controls undermines his claim to having developed a successful technique. "We can compare what happens to people before and after the procedure, and that is enough," Huang says. "The operation is safe, doable and effective...
...that no nation controls. Their name for this global system was Empire, and it's a handy model. The U.S. decision to invade Iraq? A classic pre-imperial move, oblivious to the complex global consequences of one nation's actions within the powerful web of Empire. But the authors insist that Empire has an upside, that it creates an opportunity for a different kind of democracy, one that would encompass the world. Their latest tome, Multitude (Penguin Press; 427 pages), tells us how that will happen...
...only picking up possible messages between plotters but analyzing information more quickly to determine what is just radical railing and what has substantial hidden meaning," says French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard. Despite the continued debate over the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, CIA and FBI officials insist that some high-level detainees have proved valuable in decoding talk among operatives. The war in Afghanistan and the global dragnet have taken out of circulation about half of bin Laden's senior lieutenants. "The kinds of people who are coming in simply can't match their predecessors and their ability...