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...region's money trail: two JI leaders, including Riduan Isamuddin, a.k.a. Hambali, had their assets frozen in January?16 months after the Treasury Department sought to have them designated as terrorists. Many intelligence analysts say such moves would be symbolic but important steps toward cutting off JI's financial lifeblood. The repeated delays suggest that JI will have money to burn for some time...
...meantime, foreign aid remains the country's lifeblood. Mongolia receives about $100 per capita annually, more than all but a handful of nations, partly because countries such as the U.S. and Japan like the idea of a fledgling democracy nestled between Russia and China. International aid organizations and nongovernmental organizations have delivered relief to areas hit by the dzud. They're also teaching new ways for herders to make a living?including gardening, garment making and carpentry?and are trying to make the herders think about livestock as a business. In August, the Gobi Regional Economic Growth Initiative, with funding...
...city wants to target students based on some unproven notion that students are disproportionately responsible for unpaid fines, or simply because students are a transient, vulnerable and unrepresented group, then it should think twice. Encroaching upon the academic prerogatives of the universities and specifically targeting students, the dynamic lifeblood of this region, is no way to run a city...
...what about the teachers who are, after all, the lifeblood of any institution of learning? This is one area where the nearness between Harvard and Yale is particularly apparent. For instance, although it is very difficult to quantify in any objective manner how “good” or “distinguished” a school’s faculty is, one very telling measure is how many of its members are in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, arguably America’s most distinguished learned society...
Nowhere are AIT's defenses more on display than at its 25,000-sq.-ft. data center, packed with server computers that are the lifeblood of the company. The building is made of reinforced 8-in. concrete cinder blocks, surrounded by sandbags and a 6-ft.-high chain-link, barbed-wire-topped fence. In case anyone should ever penetrate those barriers, AIT keeps an arsenal of weapons, including shotguns, in a storage room nearby. Any security breach triggers a bevy of alarms and a lock-down mode. (So far, the only serious threat has been the possibility of looting during...