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...jockeying that is currently gripping the country. It didn't seem to be an accident, after all, that Carroll, looking hale and well, was turned over to the Iraqi Islamic Party, a Sunni political group, whose secretary general, Tariq al-Hashimi, greeted the freelance journalist for the Christian Science Monitor with gifts, including a plaque with the party's logo on it, and a boxed copy of the Koran. "What you have received today from the Iraqi Islamic Party is exactly the teachings of the Koran," said Hashimi...
...Ultras" - fans whose ardent devotion to their teams has often spilled over into violence - have long been a feature of the Spanish game. "This kind of behavior began 20 years ago in isolated incidents," says Esteban Ibarra, president of the Movement Against Intolerance, an ngo that monitors the incidence of racial abuse in Spain. "But it has spread, propagated through the media, and it has contaminated not just soccer stadiums but Spanish society at large." Indeed, racist insults at Spanish soccer games are now almost routine. A year ago, members of the same Zaragoza crowd pelted Eto'o with peanuts...
...Bomb as well. Under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, signed by Iran in 1968, the country is legally entitled to build reactors and make enriched uranium fuel as a source of energy, as long as it abides by treaty rules and allows the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to monitor what it is doing. Iran has consistently denied that it intends to scale up fuel-grade enriched uranium into the purer weapons-grade component of a bomb. Iranians say they have the same rights as other countries to technology and are just looking out for their long-term energy future...
...companies selling those services insist that they care about privacy. AirSage, for example, gets data from wireless carriers to monitor drivers' cell-phone signals and map them over road grids. That lets it see exactly where gridlock is forming and quickly alert drivers to delays and alternative routes. The data it gets from carriers are aggregated from many users and scrambled, so no one can track an individual phone. "No official can use [the data] to give someone a speeding ticket," says Cy Smith, CEO of AirSage...
...from hiv, but says a preventive strategy is helping them. And although the country ran out of condoms late last year, he says, the supply has now been restored. Paulsen admits little research has been done on interactions between young people and foreigners, and there are no programs to monitor those at risk. "None of these people have come in for tests - those on the boats and those visiting them," he says...