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...There is a prospect that by the time this faculty meets again in March, we’ll be at war,” Summers said...
...when newly antibiotic resistant bacteria have resurrected diseases previously thought to have been eradicated or at least controlled, this is an alarming prospect. Imagine one of those bacteria in your gut happens to be strep or staph or tuberculosis—something nasty, but controllable with standard antibiotics. Now imagine that they pick up a plasmid from a genetically modified piece of corn. What happens? The antibiotics don’t work any more. At this point it might be worth buying some life insurance and making sure your will is in order...
...long cherished the prospect of a coup by Saddam's generals. "This way, he'd get what he deserved," a senior Pentagon official says. "More important, he'd get it at the hands of his own people." The U.S. tried to encourage a putsch by sending e-mails to members of Saddam's inner circle, including military officers. The regime responded by blocking the Iraq server so that no one could receive any messages. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced his future press conferences will be beamed into Iraq by Commando Solo, a modified cargo plane now operating along Iraq...
...during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war. In the 1991 Gulf War, allied forces controlled access to the city but did not need to enter it in strength; the Iraqi army had pulled out without much of a fight. Could Iraqi soldiers turn and run again? That's a prospect nobody here wants to contemplate. "It's not possible," says Hamoodi. "I can't imagine that the army will allow Basra to be separated from Iraq...
...expected that as the prospect of war draws nearer, Saddam Hussein will attempt to avoid an invasion through unexpected initiatives designed to impress the Security Council. He could, for example, offer new concessions or even revelations, and seek to blame his subordinates for any deception of the inspectors. But the patience of the U.S. - and of the inspectors themselves - has worn thin. Absent a dramatic and genuine turnabout by Iraq in the next week, the inspectors will report that Iraq has failed to meet its obligations under Resolution 1441. And while France and Russia insist that Powell's evidence...