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...Mulder has his own mission: to see if Father Joe's second sight can locate Mulder's sister Samantha, purportedly abducted by aliens when a child and never seen again. (Actually, we know from the series' final episode that the girl died in 1987, after undergoing experiments that produced enough Samanthas to keep Mulder addled for years.) And Scully has reasons to get back to her day job, as a surgeon at Our Lady of Sorrows Hospital. She hopes to find a treatment for a boy whose cancer the hospital authorities think is incurable. (X-philes will recall that...
...When we talk about the movement we're a part of, it's important for us to have a very clear sense of our mission and the purpose behind what we're all doing," the new "What, Me, Beacon?" Zuckerberg told the audience. Then he launched into a story about how he and the Facebook team were trying to come up with a mission statement for the movement about six months ago, when he had to go on vacation to Istanbul right in the middle of the discussion. Once there, he had dinner with a local entrepreneur...
...question now is whether Obama will be able to meet the sky-high expectations. German politicians speaking in the press have advised him against raising issues that will dampen enthusiasm, such as demanding more German soldiers to be deployed in Afghanistan - a military mission he hopes to expand. "Obama will be walking a tightrope," says Etges. "On the one hand, he wants a cheering crowd, but on the other hand can't afford to not voice any criticism at all." While the actual target of Obama's speech will be American voters watching him on television, it will still...
...routinely block humanitarian aid to the 2.5 million Darfuris trapped in refugee camps. In addition, he was given three new titles: joint chairman of the committee to control media discourse, joint chairman of a fact-finding committee on human rights violations and member of the U.N.-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) force-monitoring group...
...that would knock out America's capacity to retaliate. The immediate goal of SDI, Perle agreed, is ''not the defense of the nation as a whole, not of every city and person in it, but the defense of America's capacity to retaliate.'' Thus he saw a more realistic mission for a space-based defense system: guarding ''our critical defense installations, ballistic missiles, command and control facilities.'' He added that ''a 50% effective defense could make a significant and I think vital stabilizing contribution.'' Later at the conference, when Arms-Control Adviser Paul Nitze was informed of Perle's statements...