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...payback time. Lebanese officials, along with Israeli military sources and Western diplomats, say that while Syrian President Bashar Assad may be willing to help pull the Bush Administration out of the Iraqi quicksand, he hopes to exact concessions that would allow him to treat Lebanon, where the Syrian regime has vast financial interests, as his private turf. And according to these same sources, he is unnerved by a U.N.-sponsored inquiry that implicates top Syrian officials in the February 2005 car bombing that killed former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and 22 others. Assad is hoping that the international probe will...
...allowed to do so, the better for the entire world. Segun Ogunleye Lagos Cheney is a man of extraordinary determination. He is still looking for victory instead of a speedy exit in a degenerating Iraq. I wondered if he wasn't joking. He's like a person sinking in quicksand, yelling for help and hoping for a miracle. Chen Ven Tzu Penang, Malaysia
...therein lies the problem. Without a peer review process to separate the revolutionary papers from the merely good from the rubbish, scientists will have no way of knowing which discoveries and experiments merit their time and interest. Instead, they will spend inordinate amounts of time wading through the quicksand of junk science to get to truly interesting work. Peer reviewers are chosen as peer reviewers for a reason—unlike the hoi polloi that roam the Internet, they have the knowledge and experience to judge scientific research on its merits. Furthermore, the peer review process strengthens papers, as authors...
...unlikely to be the last word, unless Yau decides to shrink back instead of continuing to actively try to discredit the story. Most likely, though, he will keep fighting for his reputation. Only time will tell whether he is a frog whipping butter or an antelope sinking into quicksand. In the end, it will all depend on how they tell the story when it’s over...
...gains in recent months, is still shaky and too dependent on the $10 billion or so a year in remittances from Filipinos who have ventured abroad in search of better opportunities. Says John Forbes, an official with the American Chamber of Commerce: "The best description for the economy is quicksand...