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...Bravo for honoring the Heroes of the Year! There may be differing opinions about whether the troops should be where they are, but there is no disputing that they deserve the utmost respect and admiration for being willing to serve and protect us. We must not only be grateful but also let the people in the services know we are. Thanks for doing your part. Victoria S. Hutchinson Lynchburg...
...deal," says Muwaffak Rubaiye, who with three other members of the Iraqi Governing Council met with Saddam soon after he was nabbed. Rubaiye thinks the former Iraqi dictator would tell all about his missing unconventional weapons if he were accorded prisoner-of-war status, which would protect him from the death penalty. "He even learned words of English, like rubbish and surrender," says Rubaiye. "He was clearly preparing himself for surrender...
...deputy, exhorted followers to overthrow the Pakistani leader. The two attempts on Musharraf's life, plus another assassination plot uncovered by Pakistani authorities in April 2002, have left U.S. officials deeply troubled. So invested is the U.S. in Musharraf, American officials are providing technical assistance and intelligence to help protect him. In Pakistan, says Senator Chuck Hagel, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "Musharraf is the steadiest force that there is or that we could hope...
...technology," he says. Already, he has performed an experiment for the U.S. Army in which a mere eight motes were dropped from a plane and used to detect a fleet of vehicles on the ground. Homeland Security will start using smart dust this summer in a pilot project to protect ports in Florida. And Honeywell has started using motes in supermarkets to make giant refrigerators more energy efficient. Says Pister: "There's a potential to do for the physical world what the Net did for the world of ideas." --By Chris Taylor/Berkeley
...there are culprits in the White House who leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame, they may now be dependent on reporters to protect their identities. The Administration's critics have accused it of exposing Plame in retaliation for comments by her husband former Ambassador Joseph Wilson that undercut Bush's assertions about Iraq's nuclear capabilities. Divulging an agent's ID knowingly is a federal crime, which is why the FBI is probing the affair. Its agents have interviewed and scoured the e-mails, calendars and phone logs of several dozen White House staff members, including Bush...