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...hand at revisiting conspiracy theories. He wrote controversial assessments dismissing those surrounding the J.F.K. and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations. And the Berkeley-educated lawyer is adept at marshaling an unwieldy mass of information--most of his sources are other books and news stories--into a pattern made tidy and linear by hindsight. His indictment of U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies covers well-trodden ground, though sometimes the might-have-beens and could-have-seens are stretched thin. The stuff that is going to spark hot debate is Chapter 19, an account--based on Zubaydah's claims as told...
...survey last week by opinion research firm Sifo shows 47% of voters are against the euro and 41% in favor. But the momentum appears to be behind the yes camp, which has picked up a substantial seven percentage points in the last week. The poll reveals a surprising pattern of opinion: men in private-sector jobs tend to favor the euro, while women in public-sector jobs are opposed. Urban voters are more likely to favor the euro - Stockholm overwhelmingly supports the yes camp - while people in small towns and rural areas are against. The campaign has even divided...
...that one of the arrows in his quiver is stained with the blood of several other people, which indicates he may well have shot his enemies and retrieved the arrow. And the friend? Someone else's blood left stains on the shoulders of Otzi's leather jacket in a pattern suggesting the Iceman might have been supporting a wounded companion as they tried to escape...
...Finney, a researcher with the U.S. Forest Service's Fire Sciences Laboratory in Missoula, Mont., is that it's probably not going to be necessary to thin or prescribe-burn every acre of forest at risk. According to mathematical models that Finney has developed, reducing fuels in a strategic pattern across a more manageable 20% of the landscape may well be sufficient...
After his arrest, Okhotin has said, he encountered a pervasive pattern of corruption and misconduct by the Russian authorities—both the customs agents who first took him into custody and the investigators examining his case—including repeated solicitations for bribes...