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...units (where the emphasis is on drug-related and white-collar crime) to ones dealing in terror prevention. The director also wants to add 900 new employees, 500 of whom would work as analysts. This is a sea change for the embattled agency - and an answer to critics who maintain it has wasted its manpower on following up traditional crime rather than preventing new waves of terror. But will it be enough to prevent future terror attacks? It's impossible to say for sure, but as Mueller announced Wednesday, the restructuring represents "a dramatic departure from the past...
That may well spawn other reforms, such as allowing Cuba access to U.S. credit to buy American food and medicine. "U.S. business, tourism and farm-state politics are overtaking Miami politics on this issue," says Flake, an Arizona Republican. Florida political analysts say the Bushes want to maintain a hard line, at least until the gubernatorial election in November. But with even Fidel turning against the embargo, the Bush brothers may have less time than they thought. --With reporting by Dolly Mascarenas/Havana
...says Kramer. "And that's essentially what we found--but not for the nonaerobic group." Besides increasing the flow of blood to the brain, aerobic exercise is believed to stimulate the production of new neurons in the brain and a protein called bdnf (brain-derived neurotropic factor), which helps maintain the health and efficiency of neurons...
...young brides. Two decades of restrictive family-planning policies have resulted in a drastic gender imbalance-the country is missing 50 million girls who would have been born if not for sex-based abortions and female infanticide. Sons are valued far more than daughters in China because males maintain the family line and care for parents when they grow old. Girls, on the other hand, leave their parents' home for their husband's clan when they marry. In China's poorest villages, fathers don't even count their daughters when asked how many children they have. "Two strong sons," says...
...Guard just for the money," says Wyss, who offered to forgo his pay as a recruiter. "Serving the Holy Father is a great spiritual experience and an honor. And it's good for Switzerland's image too." It is an honor that the country's Catholics are vowing to maintain. "Recruitment has had its ups and downs but this tradition is as relevant today as ever," says Bishop Norbert Brunner, a liaison between the Swiss Catholic Church and the Vatican. "I hope that the day when there are no more willing candidates will never come." If Wyss and Segm...