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...Fort Dix case shows that it is indeed an important prototype. Six years after 9/11, the U.S. government has begun to settle on a strategy for finding and stopping potential homegrown terrorists before they strike. Fort Dix offers a case study of this new and sometimes precarious method. The model is called pre-emptive prosecution, and like other pre-emptive strikes of late, it is risky. It means relying on often unreliable informants to infiltrate insular communities, and it means making arrests before anything close to a terrorist attack actually happens. The process sometimes ends with a trial...
...students had prior knowledge of the other choices, and spotted Pilbeam by process of elimination. “Oh dear…I have absolutely no idea what he looks like,” said one student, who then proceeded to select the correct answer by a well-honed method he called “random guessing.” Others, good students that they are, actually knew the answer—they had jumped at one of the opportunities to hear the dean speak. Whatever the case, the important question is: can we decry...
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...Until we’ve figured it out, I think it would be a mistake to dry out private funds or any funds for embryonic research and nuclear transfer,” said reprogramming researcher Konrad Hochedlinger, adding that he predicted the new method would overcome those hurdles...
...institute had discussed its reaction to the discoveries with some donors, telling them that it was too early to commit to one method, Reeve said. HSCI allocates nearly equal funding to embryonic stem cell and direct reprogramming methods, he added...