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...Padilla began a 10-year odyssey, moving ever closer to radical elements within Islam. In South Florida, as many as 60,000 Muslims attend two dozen mosques and religious sites, spanning the spectrum of ideology. A subculture of extremism has taken hold in certain pockets. "Hamas and Hizballah have a wide network here," says a prominent Islamic community leader. "We have been taking a nap on this issue for far too long. These are people who are convinced that the West is evil and America is 'Darul Harb,'" the Place of War. The community leader, who requested anonymity, describes...
...physics, the exclusion principle holds that an electron within an atom, once in orbit, excludes any other particle from occupying exactly the same orbit. That may be as apt a metaphor as any for the unique odyssey of the collection of atoms that was Andrei Sakharov. The life of the dissident Russian physicist - acclaimed as both the creator of the Soviet H-bomb and the conscience of his country - spanned the years from Lenin to Gorbachev, the rise and fall of Soviet communism and the triumph of physics. Who but Sakharov could so personify such an age? Now, more than...
...visit the region this week in an effort to ease the crisis, but Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes said there was little hope for a swift resolution. Meanwhile, the U.S., Britain and other countries told their nationals to leave India, adding to similar advice on Pakistan. MARS A Martian Odyssey, And a Sea of Ice Where did all the water on Mars go when the once warm and wet planet became cold and dry? After studying data from the orbiting Odyssey spacecraft, U.S. scientists believe it's still there, lying just below the surface as a huge...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE A Room with a Mind of Its Own Machines with sinister minds of their own have been standard fare in popular sci-fi chillers like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Stephen King's bestseller Christine. But the fiction behind these devices is rapidly becoming fact, and Ada - a room-sized artificial intelligence system on show at the 2002 Swiss National Exhibition in Neuch?tel until Oct. 20 - is living proof. Developed at the Institute for Neuroinformatics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Ada is a mirror-clad room outfitted with its own electronic eyes and ears...
...covered a lot of ground during his five-day odyssey - 3,400 miles, to be exact, leaving a trail of 18 pipe bombs. The devices, which Helder planted in mailboxes, injured six people, spraying BBs and nails in a burst of smokeless gunpowder. (In one more bizarre twist, Helder says he was planning to place the bombs in locations to form a sort of geographical smiley face...