Word: juma
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...forces hot on the trail of Osama bin Laden and the leaders of the Taliban in late 2001 didn't worry much about elderly, pious-looking men like Haji Juma Khan. A towering tribesman from the Baluchistan desert near Pakistan, Khan was picked up that December near Kandahar and taken into U.S. custody. Though known to U.S. and Afghan officials as a drug trafficker, he seemed an insignificant catch. "At the time, the Americans were only interested in catching bin Laden and [Taliban leader] Mullah Omar," says a European counterterrorism expert in Kabul. "Juma Khan walked...
Director of the Kennedy School of Government’s Science, Technology and Innovation Program Calestous Juma of the organized the event...
...wanted to cover issues of ethics, I wanted to address issues of how to regulate, and I wanted Venter because I wanted someone who is at the cutting age of research,” Juma said...
...results provide an overwhelming case for proceeding with the full-scale assessment next year. Equally important, PAGE is the first time a critical mass of scientists from different disciplines has rallied around the crisis in the planet's ecosystems. Notes Calestous Juma of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government: "If you look at issues like ozone depletion and climate change, there was progress because different scientists pulled together in assessments. That hasn't happened until now in biological systems...