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...With those words last week at the entrance to one of Iraq's presidential sites, weapons inspectors in Baghdad made it clear they intended to go anywhere they wanted in the renewed hunt for weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein may possess. After a few minutes' hesitation by startled palace guards, the 23 U.N. and International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors were welcomed in-to enter rooms, poke in closets, even inspect a store of marmalade...
...make her actions speak louder than words. She leads the nation in goals against average—disregarding D-I teams who play D-III teams. Her save percentage of .907 is well below Gunn’s at .938. But since Harvard rarely lets teams possess the puck long enough to take many shots, a large share of Ruddock’s saves are on testy odd-man rushes—like the breakaway save she made on Brown’s Kim Insalaco last Sunday...
...tend to complain—about reading assignments, dining-hall food, the distance from the Quad to the river and the lack of cable in dorms, to name but a few grievances. Yet there exist a small number of students who remain unfazed by such trivialities. These young men possess something they modestly call “perspective.” They have marched for miles upon miles, from dawn to dusk, with heavy packs on their backs. They have been left in the jungle to fend for themselves for days at a time. They have launched mortars without blinking...
...extremely potent stockpile of chemical and biological weapons, regardless of what the inspectors do or do not find, but is limited in his ability to deliver them. After another year or two of “containment,” even with sporadic inspections, Iraq would likely possess sophisticated drones for deploying chemical and biological weapons, longer-range ballistic missiles, and functional nuclear weapons...
...currently hot field of nanotechnology, the science of building microscopic machines. The hero is an unemployed computer whiz named Jack Forman, a likable blank who has the misfortune to be married to Julia, a workaholic exec at Xymos, a shady Silicon Valley start-up. Xymos builds tiny nanorobots that possess no intelligence of their own but can assemble themselves, insect-like, into swarms capable of solving complex problems, reproducing and even evolving. Since the thoughtless hubris of scientists is Crichton's Big Theme, all this must go terribly wrong. A nanoswarm gets loose in the Nevada desert and starts killing...