Word: issa
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...Congress, however, wants to see more than employee pep talks. "The Interior Department breached its fiduciary duty to the American people," says Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, who chairs the government reform panel's Energy and Resources Subcommittee. "It is charged with holding our natural resources in trust." Instead, he complains, the department "squandered billions...
...survive. "This represents a conceptual revolution in cancer biology," says Dr. Robert Weinberg, a cancer-research pioneer at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Mass. "This is going to explain the way a wide variety of human cancers originate and the way they grow." Says Dr. Jean-Pierre Issa, a leukemia researcher at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas: "If we are able to eradicate the cancer stem cell, we will be able to cure patients...
...charge for which there's plenty of evidence in the form of aggressive talkback-radio transcripts. A fear is that the rioters of Dec. 11 may have started something that no one will be able to finish. "Look at this text message," says 19-year-old Muslim Noah Issa, who works as a security guard in Cronulla. "Wake up, wake up, oh lions of Lebanon," it begins, before calling for more retaliation and the extermination of the "enemy." Having hitherto sounded reasonable, Issa hears the message as a war cry: "This makes me wild." Teenaged Lebanese Australians have an identity...
...Germans choppered them to Fürstenfeldbruck military airfield. When Issa, as the Black September commander called himself, and a comrade inspected the Boeing 727 they were promised, they found it empty and cold. As they raced back to the two helicopters, German snipers on the roof of a nearby building opened fire. The Palestinians shot out the lights on the tarmac, and the Germans were paralyzed for nearly an hour, until four armored police vehicles arrived. That prompted a terrorist to toss a grenade into one helicopter, and another to shoot the hostages in the other helicopter. Three Black September...
...four men who commandeered the Italian liner received prison sentences that ranged from four to eight years. Two days after the proceeding, it was learned that the youngest was only 17 years old and would have to be retried in a juvenile court. A fifth defendant, Mohammed Issa Abbas, who was arrested in Genoa carrying false passports before the ship set sail, received a $1,700 fine and a nine-year sentence for smuggling Kalashnikov automatic rifles and hand grenades into Italy. Abbas, 24, told the court that he is a cousin of Abul Abbas. GREECE An Anniversary Gets Ugly...