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...North Korea apparently figured it could obtain nukes another way: using the slower but more easily hidden method of enriching uranium to weapons grade in gas centrifuges--the same method some now accuse Saddam Hussein of pursuing. To accomplish that, the reclusive North Koreans needed to buy know-how and equipment abroad, including high-strength aluminum for the whirling centrifuges. By late July, the CIA had picked up enough tip-offs to conclude that Pyongyang was procuring banned supplies. By late summer, a Bush aide says, "things fell in place, and we could...
While it won’t seek to be a primary source of funds for faculty doing development research, it will try to catalyze and provide support for such work. It will be the type of center that provides the know-how for Harvard professors looking to do survey research in the developing world, Rodrik explains...
...things to come. China is increasingly embracing such high-tech tactics as a way of destabilizing potential enemies, including the U.S. In the past three years, the People's Liberation Army has moved quickly to implement a new military strategy that relies heavily on this kind of technological know-how. In the future it even wants to add such high-tech gizmos as laser beams to zap U.S. satellites that monitor battlefields, bombs emitting electromagnetic pulses that blind missile guidance systems, and computer attacks that could put U.S. command networks on the fritz...
...Israeli intelligence calls them, brought with them new, improved explosives formulas, which use levels of urea higher than in previous recipes to create a bomb that's more stable and more powerful. Shehadah also organized the manufacture of mortars and of Hamas' Qassem II rockets and exported the know-how from Gaza to the West Bank, according to Israeli security officials. But he may prove an even more lethal force in death. In the days before his assassination, relatively moderate Hamas leaders in Gaza were secretly talking to senior officials in Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority. Palestinian officials close...
...They are trying to replace trained projectionist professionals with people who have a minimum know-how in running film,” he said. “We’ve heard that films are being shown where the print is scratched, where they had to issue refunds because film was damaged...