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...will be the prism through which he will be judged. If successful, his battle against terrorism and campaign for democratization in the Middle East will be viewed as a hinge of history, in which a closing door opened and light came slowly, gradually in. But if deemed a failure, the war will stamp his legacy as having created a more bitterly divided country and a more chaotic, fractured world. We do not know yet. In his latest press conference, he pledged to stay the course. We do know that this unassuming man became a radical gambler with his fate...
...fair, it wasn't just politics that led the Spanish government to see the attacks through an ETA prism. The Feb. 29 arrest of the alleged ETA operatives with their vanload of explosives was not the only recent attempt foiled by Spanish police. Last Christmas Eve, Spanish police foiled an attempt by two ETA operatives to blow up a train bound for another of Madrid's major train stations, Chamartin. They caught one trying to put a suitcase packed with 62 lbs. of the explosive Titadine on the train before it left and later found another suitcase with...
...devotion to the space agency is a recent conversion. He showed no great fascination with the space program while he was Governor of Texas. He never visited the Johnson Space Center even though it was just around the corner, and saw the idea of space exploration through the prism of education, his signature "big idea" back then. But White House aides say that after the Columbia disaster, Bush became intent on reviving NASA, pushing for a concrete, results-oriented plan and dismissing an incremental option that focused merely on exploring the outer cosmos. "Set the marker," says an aide paraphrasing...
...tracking noncombatants, but ultimately we hope every soldier will have an RFID tag," says Lisa Mantock, president of Texas-based ScenPro, which developed the software. Using similar technology, Calipatria State Prison in California became the nation's first such facility to monitor guards and inmates alike with TSI PRISM, a tracking technology using RFID wristbands that look like large diver's watches. The surveillance curtails violence...
There are many details of the first 28 years of Okhotin’s life which, viewed through the prism of his arrest and detainment in Moscow this year, stand out as haunting and inspiring hints of what was to come...