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...been hassled by another set of beasties who make their homes not in pond water but in Washington. According to the twisted logic of a passel of ethicists, scientists and others hand-picked by the Bush administration, scraping a sample from an old man’s gums to peer at it under a microscope could be ethically questionable...
SNAP is a national volunteer organization that helps survivors through peer counseling and support groups...
Most schools have not yet taken advantage of these academic “peer effects” in first-year housing. For example, the deans at Harvard do not look at students’ high school achievements when creating rooming groups...
While the deans at Harvard do not attempt to take advantage of academic peer effects, they are very conscious of social effects when grouping students. As Dean Mancall explained to me, “Our general philosophy is that we are trying to put students together that are compatible and will learn from each other...
...Faruq's story is a particularly useful keyhole through which to peer into the world of modern terrorism. Above all, his tale reveals the global nature of the al-Qaeda threat, as disparate groups and individuals form coalitions to fight a common, faraway foe. Islamic terrorist groups are not new; in one form or another and in countries from the Mediterranean to the Pacific, they have existed for decades. But until recently, the groups conducted local campaigns against local targets. Algerian organizations like the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), for example, focused their operations on the hated, secular Algerian government...