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...Kite Runner begins and ends in contemporary America, and the story it tells is firmly set against the history of modern Afghanistan, from a point just before the Soviet invasion of that unhappy land to the moment after the Taliban imposed its hateful fundamentalism on the country. Yet the movie version of Khaled Hosseini's best selling novel doesn't feel like it has been, as people used to say, "ripped from headlines." It instead has about it something of the air of a big, rich, very old-fashioned novel, telling the far-ranging story of two boys...
...impossible. There are also concerns about "leakage," the possibility that if one paid for a project to save trees in one area, logging would simply move to another, unprotected forest - and the saved CO2 would leak. But new space imaging, much of it done by the Japanese Land Observing Satellite (ALOS), can collect precise data on the rate and type of deforestation, even through clouds - pretty important, given that the Amazon alone recycles trillions of tons of moisture every year. And leakage can be avoided by assigning countrywide baselines for deforestation - a kind of emissions cap for forestry - so that...
Freddie W. Peyerl graduated from Harvard’s Ph.D. program in virology in 2004, hoping to land a faculty post. Like most of his peers on that path, he first accepted a postdoctoral position at a research laboratory—in his case, one run by scientists from the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute...
...heavy reliance on informants has led to cases that sometimes appear to exist in the land of make-believe. At one point during the Liberty City investigation, Batiste suggested to the informant that they could blow up the Sears Tower so that it would fall into Lake Michigan and create a tsunami. "Where did you get this idea?" Batiste's attorney later asked him on the stand. His answer was believable: "Just from watching the movies...
...despite the B-movie cast of characters, the stakes in this case were actually pretty high. The fact that it ended in a mistrial - coming shortly after a jury acquitted or hung on all counts in the Holy Land Foundation case in Texas, which had been the government's showcase terrorism-financing prosecution - is striking. If the government can't win this kind of case, it may show that juries cannot get behind preemptive prosecutions - that, perhaps, they don't agree with prosecutor Jacqueline Arango, who said in her closing arguments, "The government need not wait until buildings come down...