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...with a series of orderly, stylistic, mural-sized black-and-white works featuring cubes and pyramids that appeared to be floating, he painted dizzying grids and spheres in eye-popping colors. Describing the theme of much of his work, he said, "We're not going to get rid of chaos and complexity ... But we can find a way to live with them." died. richard doll, 92, one of the first scientists to link cigarette smoking to lung cancer; in Oxford, England. The epidemiologist's 1949 findings, based on patient surveys at 20 hospitals in London, showed smoking...
While the declared nuclear powers have wobbled in their commitment to get rid of their arsenals, the rise of a global black market in nuclear expertise and materials has made the Bomb more attainable for everyone else. Despite the bust in 2004 of A.Q. Khan, the Pakistani scientist who transferred nuclear technology and designs to clients like Libya, Iran and North Korea, intelligence officials around the world believe much of his network is still in business. (Today Khan lives under house arrest in Pakistan, but the U.S. has yet to receive Islamabad's permission to question him.) Meanwhile, Nunn maintains...
...make sure someone was always available in an emergency. Janssen got software that turns voice mail into e-mail files accessible from anywhere, making it easier for her to work at home. Many teams realized that they need only one regular weekly or monthly staff meeting, so they got rid of the unproductive ones...
...bombing London, no one was saying all Catholics were to blame." Says Doyle: "This is not a war between the West and Islam - it is between those who want to live normally and peacefully and those who don't." Yet no matter how many call for British Islam to rid itself of the ideologists of hate, the truth remains that few yet know why some of their youngsters feel the way they do. "There's definitely something about the younger generation," says Ahmed, the Leeds taxi driver. "They feel under attack, and I don't know why." And while that...
...dismantled and that drowned landscape conjured back into being? That is the provocative question posed by an activist group called Restore Hetch Hetchy, which five years ago launched a spirited but seemingly quixotic campaign to convince the public that the time has come to get rid of the unnatural bone lodged in the valley's throat. "This was done by people, and it can be undone by people," says Restore Hetch Hetchy's executive director Ron Good...