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...would turn into pandemonium. Bodyguards with Kalashnikov ma-chine guns would struggle to carve out a path so al-Sadr could reach a platform beneath the arches. Once there, his speech was usually brief, but the point of his appearance was clear: to show his movement's strength and plant the seeds for Islamic revolution. "Muqtada!" the crowd would roar. "We will sacrifice our blood...
DIED. LARISA BOGORAZ, 74, one of seven Soviet dissidents who in 1968 participated in a risky demonstration in Red Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia; of a stroke; in Moscow. The linguist and human-rights activist, who spent four years exiled in a Siberian woodworking plant, once wrote an open letter to KGB chief Yuri Andropov to inform him that she was keeping a record of Soviet oppression...
...November. That's when company officials showed him a newspaper photo of birds dying in central Thailand. Dhanin says he had no idea it was the deadly H5N1 virus, but he knew he had to act. Orders went out to seal up all of CP's chicken plants by further restricting access to plant premises--even delivery trucks were kept out. On Jan. 23, government officials announced that two young boys had tested positive for avian flu. The next day, CP's stock plummeted 12.5%. But share prices have since rebounded. And CP says no birds on the factory farms...
...used elsewhere." Today perhaps as little as 15% of Madagascar's original vegetation remains, but even its besieged enclaves are a naturalist's paradise. No Amazon jungle can beat the diversity and uniqueness of species to be found there. Half the island's birds, upwards of 80% of its plants and 90% of its reptiles can be found nowhere else on earth, and, says palm expert John Dransfield of the Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG) at Kew in the U.K., "we are discovering new species at an astounding rate." Many, like the now-famous rosy periwinkle, a source of compounds used...
...mania. It is true that Summers’ public remarks on sciences, from his inaugural address to his speech at the announcement of the Broad Institute (a collaborative genomics project involving Harvard, MIT and the Whitehead Institute), have largely focused on molecular rather than evolutionary and whole-animal or plant biology. The thrust of the preliminary Allston plans, moreover, would support the belief that medicine and biotechnology are where Summers sees the University’s future...