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...unfinished business of the Afghan campaign has left the U.S. in an uncomfortable position. Washington is being forced to commit more of its own troops to ground missions in pursuit of both fugitive leaders and against pockets of Taliban and al Qaeda fighters, which substantially increases the risk of American combat casualties. But casualties have been so few that there's no danger of an erosion of public support for the effort. And the U.S. military has moved nimbly to shift public expectations away from the idea that American forces are hunting fugitives - the mission is being firmly framed...
...moral shield to deflect criticism for a vote they felt forced to make. Their rueful entries concurred that "although bin Laden deserves no praise for his role, he has been the only person that has proven capable of uniting the world together in a common goal - the pursuit of justice and of safety for all peace loving people." ... " Osama bin Laden has proven to all doubters that one person really can change the world forever...
...frail but persuasive tenor voice; for example, in the phrase "And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak," the melody zigzags up to a note Astaire can hardly sing. The song's daring swings of rhythm and emotion consecutively express three moods of a lover in pursuit - bliss ("Heaven, I'm in heaven"), jauntiness ("Oh, I love to climb a mountain...") and desperate ardor ("Dance with me!") - which Astaire's dance of seduction with Ginger Rogers sublimely dramatizes. It's a miraculous piece of music, and Berlin wrote...
Upon severing relations with Arafat last week, the Israelis announced that they would from now on make their own arrests of Palestinian fugitives. That means violating a key component of the Oslo peace accords, which forbid Israeli forces to enter territory under Authority control unless they are in "hot pursuit" of a wanted individual. But the right-wing Sharon has never liked the Oslo accords, which were negotiated under a dovish government. He immediately delivered on his vow, sending his troops, backed by tanks, into West Bank towns to arrest 50 suspected militants. For good measure, Israeli fighter planes...
Investor dollars are not the only things flowing out of digital technology and into biotech; plenty of high-end hardware and software are following the money. The pursuit of new drugs through genomics and proteomics requires the gathering and sifting of oceanic volumes of data about molecules and their reactions to one another. Vertex Pharmaceuticals, for example, simulates 47 billion reactions between drugs and proteins a day--nearly as many as the number of e-mails sent out in the world every week. This requires the massive deployment of supercomputers and highly sophisticated programming tools--all key elements...