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...Thailand this weekend, and accompanied home by the U.S. officials who raided his shabby quarters in Bangkok on Wednesday. Doubts about the veracity of his confession have only multiplied since he volunteered it to the world on Thursday. But it's probably safe to assume that Karr's fruitless quest to become a grade-school teacher has finally come...
Today, as director of Harvard’s Personal Genome Project (PGP)—which promises to make DNA sequencing a faster and more cost-efficient process—his quest to improve our knowledge of genetics with the aid of computer science continues...
...reporting on anarchy, chaos, disintegration, and failures of leadership” in New Orleans.Horne started as a journalist while at Harvard. During his senior year he freelanced for The Boston Phoenix, and subsequently moved on to Time, Inc. And after writing for People, LIFE, Quest, and The Village Voice, he made the transition from magazines to newspapers with a job at The Kingston Daily Freeman in Ulster County, New York.He got his start at the Times-Picayune in 1998 when he and his wife, Jane D. Wholey, moved to New Orleans’ French Quarter and he took...
...Earlier this year, the U.S. had been poised to explore a new avenue in the quest to stabilize Iraq - direct talks with Iran. Plans to talk were eventually scrapped amid mounting tensions over Tehran's nuclear program. But if tamping down sectarian violence by reining in the Shi'ite militias has become an urgent priority to prevent a civil war, the U.S. may yet have to reconsider the prospects for reaching agreements on the immediate future of Iraq with the Sadr movement - and rethink its unwillingness to deal with Iran...
...Fidel, who realized that Cuba was going to have to pursue economic reforms to survive" and he put many of his military officers in charge of new enterprises like tourism. In After Fidel, Latell writes that Raul, "unlike his brother, has never been motivated by an ego-charged quest for fame and glory or internationalist gratification. He does not thrive on conflict and confrontation as Fidel has since childhood. He worries more about the economic hardships the Cuban people endures, and is likely to more flexible and compassionate in power...