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...impact that higher sea-surface temperatures have on wind patterns. That's because there are two ways to change wind shear. One is by reducing or amplifying high-level winds, which is what the El Nino cycle does. The other is by tinkering with the winds that take a low-level course. And the rise and fall of Atlantic sea-surface temperatures appear to correlate with both...
...their minds and asked to be driven to a secluded suburb. Then they pulled guns on the driver and forced him out. "Do not look back," one of the strangers said, before speeding off. In any other part of the world, the crime might be deemed the work of low-level thugs, but in Iraq even minor incidents can take on sinister dimensions. After investigating the taxi driver's story, agents from the General Security Service in Sulaimaniyah reached a chilling conclusion: the three men may have been foreign militants who slipped into Iraq to stage a terrorist attack against...
...know what kind of work it would be," he says in Spanish, adding that he was paid $200 a month. Villa Garcia was arraigned on narcotics-cultivation charges, pleaded not guilty, and is in prison awaiting trial. His is a story federal agents know well after arresting scores of low-level gardeners, all undocumented, most hailing from Michoacan. "They don't know much, and they're told, 'You talk, you gonna die,'" says Mark, who has questioned 60 such workers in the past year. "The odds of us finding the organizers are slim...
...doesn’t really have a goal. It’s just something unusual and whimsical,” said Claudia Mastroianni ’91-’94, a computer technician at the University who helped with low-level organization for the event...
...Karzai favors reintegrating low-level Taliban into Afghan society. But Mullah Khaksar, an ex-Taliban minister who later allied himself with the Northern Alliance, says Talibs are warned by their peers that "they'll be sent to Guant?namo" if they return. Or, he adds, "[the Taliban] pay people to join their jihad." Mullah Nik Mohammed, a Taliban commander captured in Spin Boldak, told his interrogators that he would have received $850 for detonating a bomb, double that if it killed a civilian, and $2,600 for taking a soldier's life...