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...sounds persuasive, but Washington doesn't have a flawless track record on making such intelligence allegations stick. For example, last fall the CIA pointed to satellite snaps of construction under way at the al Tuwaitha complex near Baghdad as proof that Iraq was rebuilding its nuclear-bomb plant. After 12 visits there sampling the soil, testing equipment and checking for radiation, the inspectors could detect no nuclear developments. At three other sites that the U.S. said were resuming production of chemical and biological agents, repeated inspections showed the plants were either inoperative or producing something other than microbes. The Administration...
...with earthly motivations and none-too-resolute convictions but who ultimately come to embrace terror. One such character is Badshah Khan, an underworld foot soldier recruited to the plot and swept up in righteous determination, dutiful loyalty and terrifying excitement. He scouts targets, assesses their vulnerability and helps plant the devices. But Khan is eventually abandoned by his cohorts, left penniless and finally captured. Such portraits reveal more about the roots of terrorism than a thousand theories about the clash of civilizations could. As the U.S. deploys its full military might against Iraq in the face of almost unanimous hostility...
...infamous Question 35, which asks whether or not an applicant has ever been convicted of possessing or selling drugs other than tobacco or alcohol. Garcia immediately contacted the financial aid office and, thinking little of it, told them of her minor transgression involving the ashes of a cannabis plant...
Start with an outmoded power generation plant. Hire a high-profile architect. Remove the unused equipment and renovate the interior. Add a collection of contemporary works of art. The result? The bankside Tate Modern in London—or Harvard’s new museum for contemporary art on the Charles River...
...former has been a huge success, bringing life back to a historic, but neglected, part of the city. The latter remains the pipe dream of a few (myself included). Patricia Hills, an art historian who lives around the corner from the plant, has been thinking about the artistic potential of the building since the early 1970s, when Faneuil Hall and South Street Seaport popularized the concept of adaptive reuse. Locating the museum in the plant could certainly satisfy disparate groups with disparate goals...