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...very peripheries of much larger, better organized and fully operative structures." There have been key arrests - six Tunisians suspected of plotting a bomb attack in northern Europe were picked up in Italy, France and Malta last month; in Eindhoven last week a Dutch citizen of Moroccan origin was apprehended for allegedly plotting a suicide strike - but nothing crippling to the terrorist enterprise as a whole. The evidence was compel- ling enough for the former director of the German intelligence service, Hans-Georg Wieck, to conclude that Hanning's warning was justified. "You don't make a statement like that just...
While at Harvard, Greenstein collaborated with former Harvard Astronomy Professor Fred L. Whipple on a paper that attempted to explain the origin of radio signals in outer space...
DIED. ALLEN WALKER READ, 96, Language sleuth who hunted down the origin of words, including the initials O.K., which, he discovered, first appeared as an abbreviation, "O.K.--all correct," in the Boston Morning Post on March 23, 1839, a time when initials and misspellings, like "oll korrect," were oll the rage...
Think again. Argentine beef, prized for tenderness, is banned in the U.S. Chances are this was raised elsewhere and shipped via Argentina. The usda is devising a new, clearer label on beef's geographical origin. Voluntary guidelines are expected this month and mandatory ones in 2004. --By Janice M. Horowitz
...this forensic technique, in part because it's one of the only ways officials have to track the sniper. Geographic profiling is generally used when investigating serial crimes - rape, murder, robbery - and depends on mapping the location of each crime in order to determine the most likely point of origin for the suspect. In other words, if you pinpoint the place each shooting occurred, you can deduce a "center" for the criminal's activity, and that often ends up being the perpetrator's home...