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...rally the world" against the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran. The next step in that effort came Thursday, when the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) met in Vienna to discuss Iran. On the table was a resolution introduced by Britain, France and Germany, calling on the IAEA to refer Iran to the UN Security Council for what it calls Iran's "many failures and breaches of its obligations" under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The resolution notes that Iran's history of concealment of certain nuclear activities has produced an "absence of confidence that Iran's nuclear program...
That doesn't make working on those cases any easier for Wictum and her colleagues. They remember the names of animals that have been fatally abused and refer to the people who do it as "serial killers." Kun, a mother of two, finds cases involving children as victims particularly difficult. "When I got samples for a case where a 6-year-old was mauled by dogs, I was glad I was alone in the lab," says...
...said that although students will not understand the difference between an Angus and a chuck beef patty—the names refer to different body parts of the cow—they will appreciate taste differences...
...line, forcing them to respond. The three European countries with which Iran had been negotiating - Britain, France and Germany - agreed Thursday that there was no purpose in further negotiations as long as Tehran holds its current course, and they called for an emergency session of the IAEA board to refer the matter to the U.N. Security Council. A decision along those lines is expected either at an emergency session held later this month, or else at the next IAEA board meeting in March...
...creativity research, we refer to the three Bs?for the bathtub, the bed and the bus?places where ideas have famously and suddenly emerged. When we take time off from working on a problem, we change what we're doing and our context, and that can activate different areas of our brain. If the answer wasn't in the part of the brain we were using, it might be in another. If we're lucky, in the next context we may hear or see something that relates?distantly?to the problem that we had temporarily put aside...