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Male mosquitoes live quite peaceably on plant nectars and juices high in sugar, but females need protein from blood to nourish their eggs before depositing them. They get it from humans and animals and rely on an array of senses to ensure that they rarely fly wide of a possible meal...
...Administration hard-liners. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), a Paris-based Iranian dissident group, claims that North Korean scientists have been helping Iran build a nuclear facility that could be used to produce bombmaking material. Last December, NCRI blew the whistle on Iran's uranium-enrichment plant in Natanz, heightening international concern about the nature of Tehran's nuclear ambitions. Just how much nuclear help Iran is getting from North Korea isn't clear, says NCRI spokesman Alireza Jafarzadeh. "We do know they have benefited," he says...
...Those who have witnessed North Korean arms-manufacturing operations are not surprised that Japan is a source of components. Kim Do Sung, who defected from the North in 1997 and now goes by a pseudonym to protect relatives back home, says he worked for nine years at Plant 38, a huge armaments factory in the city of Huichon in the northern province of Jaggang. Kim says the vast majority of the computer chips and electronic components used in missile guidance systems there were Japanese. He recalls unloading a shipment of equipment from Japan that was like a Christmas stocking...
...CHARGED. PLATON LEBEDEV, 43, billionaire associate of Russia's richest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky; with fraud; in Moscow. Authorities are investigating Lebedev for the privatization of a fertilizer plant in 1994. The day after Lebedev's arrest, Khodorkovsky, chairman of oil giant Yukos, was questioned by state prosecutors. Khodorkovsky has angered the Kremlin with his plans to fund opposition parties in this winter's parliamentary elections...
...paraffin. At a time when most state-owned rail-freight companies are losing money and customers, Raith's sales have almost tripled in the past two years, to €24 million. Rail4Chem was founded by the chemical giant BASF in 1999 after it bought a polyurethane and fertilizer plant in eastern Germany, only to find that state-owned Deutsche Bahn (DB) wasn't able to cater to its just-on-time production schedule. At the time Germany, acting ahead of many of its neighbors, had begun allowing private freight operators to move their goods within the nation on state-owned...