Word: laden
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...backing. Moscow sent its air force to bomb the airport in the Chechen capital, Grozny, on Thursday, and massed some 13,000 troops on the rebellious state?s border. At the same time, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin claimed U.S. support for his efforts, alleging that terrorist financier Osama bin Laden is behind the unrest in the Caucasus and the recent spate of apartment bombings. "The U.S. has expressed support for Russia?s fight against domestic terrorism, but it may find itself in a tight spot if Moscow goes to war with Chechnya in the name of that fight," says TIME...
Clare proved himself last season as a sophomore. He was lost in the shuffle of the senior-laden corps, but as the year progressed he distinguished himself as one of Harvard's finest lineman...
...Welcome to Slashdot, one of the busiest news outposts on the Net. It's 8:30 a.m. at gadget-laden Geek Compound, where the Slashdot crew lives and works in the outskirts of Holland, Mich. The sun is shining, but the shades are drawn -- the better to cut glare on the winglike, flat-panel SGI monitors that 23-year-olds Rob ("CmdrTaco") Malda and Jeff ("Hemos") Bates settle in front of as they start the workday. Malda, using a keyboard mounted on the arms of his chair, cursors through dozens of story suggestions submitted overnight by Slashdot users. MORE...
...targets agree with Bruer--to a point. "It's quite true," says Dr. Charles Nelson, a neuroscientist at the University of Minnesota, "that there aren't any studies looking at brain development in young children." And Matthew Melmed, executive director of Zero to Three, an educational organization whose advice-laden website is a target of Bruer's ire, acknowledges that "there have been some who have stretched the science...
...government in an effort to win back his good name--plus the $30 million or so he lost when the U.S. bombed his pharmaceutical factory last year. According to U.S. officials, Idris' plant in Khartoum stored chemical-weapons material and had links to OSAMA BIN LADEN, the alleged mastermind of attacks on two American embassies in Africa one year ago. But while America has provided little evidence to implicate Idris, the Saudi businessman has commissioned a U.S. investigative firm to support his claim that his plant produced nothing but medicine. Aided by the D.C. law firm Akin, Gump (where President...