Word: objectional
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...women have no force here, nearly all the women wear the burka. Long-standing cultural tradition exercises its own police power. And though these women have agreed to speak to TIME correspondent Hannah Beech, they will do so only through a female interpreter. They worry that their husbands might object if they learned that a man was present at the interview. During the conversation, a man does briefly enter the room. The women all hasten to cover their faces and turn toward the wall until he leaves...
...lawmakers may object when spending more for counterterrorism means losing an FBI agent in their hometown who works on an antidrug task force. Other shuffling could incite a revolt in Congress. "If you try in any significant way to hinder the civil-rights division, that would be over the bodies of Senators on the Judiciary Committee," says a former Justice Department official. Which sounds like fightin' words--perfect for someone who seems more a general than an attorney...
Scientists at Iowa State University, meanwhile, where the family of anthrax strains used in the attacks was first isolated, say the FBI didn't object when they decided to destroy their collection of anthrax samples for fear they couldn't keep them secure. (The bureau figured the "Ames" strain was so widespread the samples didn't matter.) And while officials insist that they've been thoroughly professional, FBI Deputy Assistant Director James T. Caruso admitted to a Senate committee last week that the bureau doesn't know how many labs in the U.S. handle anthrax...
Here's how the Slugbot works: a lawn mower-size machine with a long arm shines red light on the ground to identify a shiny, sluglike object, then analyzes its shape. When it finds a slug, it picks it up and drops it in a hopper. Bacteria inside the robot eat the slimy critters--a process that releases electrons that can be captured and, in theory, keep the bot's batteries perpetually charged...
...classes by VES concentrators.” The very premise of STASH involves a much wider range of Harvard students: 120 plastic bags were handed out to a large sample of students, who were told to bring back “the most visually interesting” object they could find; the only restriction was for the object to fit into...