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...associated with USAID, the agency through which much of U.S. development assistance is funneled. That grim history is evident in the administration's latest proposal, which calls for more than $10 billion in new foreign aid by the end of fiscal 2006 as part of Bush's so-called "Millennium Challenge Account". The funds will be managed largely by the Treasury and the State Departments, not by USAID. "The agency looks like it is loosing out on new funding, and that is why Natsios has mounted a turf battle," explains an influential congressional staffer. Adds a senior U.S. official: "Given...
...heavily weighted in industry's favor, to the detriment of research in fields like cryptography, which uses techniques like code breaking to find systemic flaws. For signs of what may come, look to the other side of the Atlantic, where the directive's U.S. counterpart, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, has spawned lawsuits involving threatened research. The E.U. directive, too, offers little explicit protection for computer scientists, says intellectual-property law expert Thomas Vinje. "I would not want to be representing them." That's bad news for researchers like Dutch cryptographer Niels Ferguson. Last year, he wrote...
Sachs has established himself as an internationally renowned economist who is currently advising United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on how to achieve the U.N. Millennium Development Goals—a major global initiative to cut worldwide poverty in half...
Like no other class, ours was subject to the dreams of the technology era and the subsequent slap in the face that reality dealt when that bubble finally burst. We were both the beneficiaries and the victims of the technology economy at the turn of the millennium. And despite the condition of our job searches this year, we’ve lived perhaps the most connected and technology-centric lives in the history of Harvard, and it’s been largely to our benefit...
...running al-Qaeda operations, and his arrest, says Roland Jacquard, a leading French expert on Islamic terrorism, was "an enormous, stupendous blow to al-Qaeda." Abu Zubaydah seems to have specialized in organizing al-Qaeda operatives based in Europe and North America. Ahmed Ressam, the Montreal-based "millennium bomber" captured at the end of 1999 while attempting to cross from Canada into Washington State with explosives and bomb timers, testified that Abu Zubaydah planned al-Qaeda operations in the U.S. After Sept. 11, according to a U.S. official, American intelligence learned that one of the men trailed by Ken Williams...