Word: patterning
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...merchandise, they are also getting smarter about transporting it. The first nuclear black marketeers carried their contraband straight out of Russia and into Europe, across some of the best-guarded borders in the world. As customs officials caught wise, the smugglers started shifting their route south, running a flanking pattern through Central Asia, the Caucasus Mountains and Turkey before resurfacing in Europe. This modified buttonhook play allows traffickers to take advantage of established drug routes--a smart strategy, since customs agents in a place such as Tajikistan, where 200 tons of drugs may cross the border on a busy...
...They did not include bin Laden's "spokesman," the Kuwaiti Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who- in a glimpse into the everyday life of a terrorist- turns out to be a soccer fan.) St. Andrews' Ranstorp thinks the tape suggests that the Sept. 11 attacks fit into a classic al-Qaeda pattern: an operation is conceived in the field (in this case, by Mohamed Atta, who is thought to have piloted American Airlines Flight 11, the first plane to hit the Twin Towers), then referred back to the leadership in Afghanistan for approval...
...basketball team was certainly pleased to have overcome a 16-point late first-half deficit, especially on the road. But the Crimson, who won last Tuesday against Rhode Island despite an eight-point halftime deficit, acknowledged that it can’t expect to continue that pattern all season...
Trimble expects the recent snow to prompt less hardy birds to migrate. But with the weather pattern Harvard has seen this fall, nothing is predictable. If warm weather holds out, so will the birds...
...suicide bombing in Jerusalem Wednesday that wounded six Israelis simply underscored the familiarity of the pattern of violence now being accelerated. President Bush again insisted that Yasser Arafat "rout out those who killed," but the fragility of the Palestinian leader's grip on power was demonstrated in Gaza City where Hamas gunmen, supported by thousands of demonstrators, forced Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces to retreat from the home of the movement's leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, whom Arafat had ordered placed under house arrest...