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...ozone layer to the testing of drugs for the treatment of HIV. When he was knighted last year, the self-effacing Pople said that his achievements as a scientist were not great enough to warrant the honor. "It used to be you had to get on a horse and protect the Queen," he quipped...
...also changed the dynamics of a long-static scene, blurring what had been an apparently clear distinction and raising the question: just how different are these clubs from each other? How “open” can any club be when it has its own real estate to protect...
...branch offices, told TIME last week. An even larger militia called the Badr Organization reports to the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, the Shi'ite's major political party. These fighters conducted anti-Saddam guerrilla operations from bases in Iran for years and have emerged to protect holy places and run security across much of central and southern Iraq. In the north, the Kurdish peshmerga, a 50,000-man paramilitary force that has operated freely in its largely autonomous zone since 1991, intends to remain an active regional guard...
...disarming the militias while violence flourishes will be a dicey proposition. The Shi'ites say they deserve the same dispensation to protect themselves as the Kurds. The Kurds feel they have had a tacit understanding, now acknowledged in the transition charter, that the peshmerga would be allowed to keep their arms. Even if others disagree, the Kurd militia does not plan to give up its weapons. "The peshmerga were on the right side of the fence" against Saddam and fought side by side with the Americans, says Qubad Talabani, son and aide to top Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani. "There...
...initial goal of U.S. forces in Haiti was to protect "key facilities" like the airport. But as the pro-Aristide mobs, known as chimeres, tried to take back parts of Port-au-Prince last week, vengefully looting and shooting up neighborhoods, the U.S. and France responded by launching street patrols. Unlike troops in many other peacekeeping efforts who pledge to use deadly force only in self-defense, soldiers in Haiti will be armed "with the rules that allow them to do their job," said General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff--meaning they can intervene to stop...