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...PAKISTAN: Right next door to Afghanistan is one of the most dangerous and unsettling spots the terrorists could choose. President Pervez Musharraf, having thrown his lot in with Washington, is under keen pressure to bottle up fleeing al-Qaeda men. His government has made valiant efforts lately to seal the long, porous border. But once fugitives from Afghanistan make it across, they will find broad pockets of sympathy throughout the provinces of Baluchistan and the North-West Frontier. In those semiautonomous tribal areas, Islamabad's authority has been limited, though army presence has been beefed up recently...
When U.S. biotech firm advanced Cell Technology announced last week that it had cloned the first human embryo, Europeans greeted the news with a mixture of interest, suspicion and revulsion. Scientists are keen to explore cloning as a potential source of embryonic stem cells, which could be used to treat diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's, but many question the validity of ACT's results...
...uncanny ability to deal with the administration on their own ground,” Smith says. “He has a very keen sense of how the administration thinks and what’s important to them. He knows where there’s leeway and where there isn?...
...Garrick, wife of the actor David, was a keen follower of 18th century fashion. Her painted Chinese silk dress has a skirt so wide she must have had to go through doors sideways. She wasn't so lucky with some bed hangings she tried to smuggle in. "It was illegal to import Chinese silk," says chief curator Christopher Wilk, "because Great Britain was trying to protect the U.K. textile industry." The fabric was impounded, which left poor Mrs. Garrick "weeping like Rachel for her children," as her husband wrote to a friend. She hung the recovered material around...
Currently ranked No. 8 in the country, the Harvard sophomore wrestler won the 149-pound weight class at this weekend’s Cliff Keen Invitational in Las Vegas...