Word: islanders
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...Terrorism hasn't disappeared from Indonesia - the International Crisis Group worries, based on its own extensive reporting, that militants may be preparing to strike in Poso, on the island of Sulawesi, potentially sparking again the communal violence that once ravaged the area. But Yudhoyono and other top officials remain confident they have turned the corner in fighting terror. That's good news for Indonesia - as well as the world...
...full-time by 15. His elder brother was an ANC member, and at 17 Zuma joined too. The apartheid government banned the party the next year, 1960. In 1963, Zuma was arrested, convicted of trying to overthrow the government and sentenced to 10 years, which he served on Robben Island, the famous prison off Cape Town where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for most of his 27 years in jail. After his release, Zuma helped organize underground resistance to apartheid. In 1975, he fled South Africa for Swaziland, Mozambique and Zambia - eventually becoming the ANC's intelligence chief...
...that composer Meredith Willson grew up in Mason City, Giuliani immediately made the connection: "The Music Man was on Broadway a long time." Most familiar of all is Iowa's tradition of retail politics, he said outside a Webster City diner called Coney's Plus (yep, just like the island). "This," declared Giuliani, "is the way you campaign in New York City...
...challenge of safeguarding research facilities is not just Britain's. In 2003, the U.S. General Accounting Office (now called the Government Accountability Office) found serious flaws in the security of the 50-year-old Plum Island Animal Disease Center off eastern Long Island, New York - the only facility in America cleared to research FMD. Two years later, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said the facility had become outmoded and "increasingly costly to maintain." Last year, the department said it was considering locations for a new, $450 million disease...
...Leading British Microbiologist Hugh Pennington said both Pirbright and Plum Island face similar problems. "Both are housed in old buildings, and the aging infrastructure presents challenges. The biosecurity at both centers is known to be very good, but that's not to say it's perfect, and with research into such dangerous diseases you really need to be state-of-the-art," he told TIME...