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...results, at best. The IISS study asserts that the UAE is a "common destination for illicit items and eventually the hub of the Khan network." It adds that Iran is one of the top recipients of non-oil exports from the Emirates, and predicts that "the UAE's relatively lax export controls will no doubt prove tempting to Iran if the international community continues to target its nuclear-related imports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Nuke Black Market for Iran? | 5/9/2007 | See Source »

...received his bachelor's and master's degrees in math and engineering at Virginia Tech in 2001. The campus has an extraordinary atmosphere. I am dismayed by those who insist that security is lax. To expect that buildings have badge readers and surveillance cameras is ludicrous. An open campus is essential to university life. Installing numerous security devices would adulterate that atmosphere. Moreover, it would give a false sense of security and would not have prevented this tragedy. A very determined, very deranged young man perpetrated these atrocities. He was intent on mayhem, and he succeeded. It was the courage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: May 14, 2007 | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

...There's a simpler way: Steger, the university president, should stop withholding documents on how the university mishandled Cho and take responsibility for his school's lax approach. And then he should resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: Va. Tech's President Should Resign | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

Only two days after a 23-year-old student at Virginia Tech carried out the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, the perennial heated debate over gun control has already begun. While gun control advocates have been quick to decry the dangers of lax regulations in Virginia and the rest of the nation, their Second Amendment opponents are already going on a counteroffensive; rather than simply defend their constitutionally protected right to bear arms, many are already treating the campus massacre as a call to arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gun Lobby's Counterattack | 4/18/2007 | See Source »

...here. The most destitute young Bostonians turn to guns and gangs out of desperation. Yet India’s impoverished seem far less likely to view these as viable options. Massachusetts may have some of the strictest gun control laws in the United States, but they are still more lax than those in Maharashta, and little is done to negate the pro-gun ethos of Boston’s youth...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein | Title: A Tale of Two Cities | 4/9/2007 | See Source »

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