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Britain's intelligence services have identified 1,600 potential terrorists in the U.K., but officials can keep constant tabs on only a few at a time. Terrorists no longer need to travel to Afghanistan, Pakistan or Iraq to learn their trade; they can just as easily obtain bomb blueprints and network with like-minded jihadists over the Internet. Information and expertise now flow in all directions. Car bombs, for instance, have become commonplace in Iraq, but not all Iraqi insurgent tactics originated there. "If anything," says Charles Shoebridge, a security analyst and former counterterrorism officer in the British army...
...opposition senses an opportunity too. Mrs. Kirchner's comparatively lower popularity has led them to feel optimistic about forcing a second round of voting if she cannot obtain the necessary percentage to win outright in a first round in the October 28 polls. "It is clear Cristina is the weaker candidate," said Senator Gerardo Morales, the vice-presidential candidate on Lavagna's ticket...
...that it is taking place at all means that more damaging revelations could lie ahead. Among those agitating to know more is Democratic senator John Kerry, who recently wrote to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales citing a 2002 State Department memorandum on "persistent allegations that BAE Systems pays bribes to obtain business." The State memorandum concluded that "this volume of allegations about one company would have triggered a Department of Justice criminal division investigation long ago." Kerry's letter, which asks for information on how DoJ is handling the BAE matter, also refers to a high-ranking DoJ official who said...
...fabrication of the religious right or merely an excuse for an anti-science administration to deny funding. They are the same concerns that have been brought up in Europe, where governments have been far more permissive of embryonic stem cell research. Scientists in European countries typically must obtain a license to create a new embryonic line. Even in Britain, where the government has been not only permissive but actively supportive of embryonic research, there is widespread recognition that embryos should not be freely destroyed. The British government, like many others, has also imposed a rule that embryos can only...
...When she became GSAS dean in fall 2005, Skocpol outlined her priorities as increasing Faculty involvement in the governance of the graduate school, boosting funding available to the graduate school, improving graduate student teacher training, shortening the length of time to obtain degrees, and evaluating faculty advising to graduate students. By and large, she accomplished all of those goals...