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Harvard got off the lone shot of the overtime period, but neither team was able to break the tie before time expired...
...data connecting obesity with child molestation at a national meeting on obesity in 1990, most colleagues dismissed him immediately (one even claimed that obese people made up such stories to justify their "failed lives"). David Williamson, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was the lone exception. He said that a large epidemiological study was needed to determine whether there were any implications of Felitti's findings for public health...
With the FBI releasing only sketchy details about the failed attempt to bring down the Northwest Flight 253 in Detroit, many counterterrorism officials and experts caution against hasty conclusions. "This was clearly an attempted terror strike, but it's too early to say whether this guy was a lone, self-motivated terrorist or a part of a larger plot," says one counterterrorism official. "We obviously have to assume the worst and investigate this thing down to the smallest details...
...have noticed, because most of the plots were foiled, but 2009 saw an unprecedented surge in terrorism events on U.S. soil. When analysts tally these events, they refer to anything from a disrupted plot to U.S. citizens traveling abroad to seek terrorism training or a lone gunman running amok in the U.S. And by the calculations of Rand Corp. expert Brian Jenkins, more terrorist threats were uncovered in the U.S. in 2009 than in any year since...
...Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also stirred up concerns by declaring that Iran would move to enrich uranium to a far higher level of purity than it does now. Experts mostly dismissed the expansion plan as bluster, arguing that Iran lacks the industrial infrastructure to meet its ambitious targets. The country's lone existing facility, at Natanz, holds about 8,000 operating nuclear centrifuges; the proposal envisions some...