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...CREDIT CRISIS Gold has risen 41% since last August; it hit a peak of $1,033 on March...
...Presiding over the cradle of Islam and home to its holiest sites, the Saudi monarchy has long banned the open worship of other faiths, even as the number of Catholics resident in Saudi Arabia has risen to 800,000 thanks to an influx of immigrant workers from places like the Philippines and India. Mosques are the only houses of prayer in a country where the strict Wahhabi version of Sunni Islam dominates. But Archbishop Paul-Mounged El-Hachem, the papal envoy to the smaller countries on the Arabian peninsula, such as Kuwait and Qatar, has confirmed that talks are under...
...even this “step back” is hardly that, as Smith, too, has risen to the occasion, winning 41 of his 70 faceoffs...
...change is necessary for the future viability of the biomedical field. A major concern is that junior researchers are becoming especially neglected as funding tightens. In a report issued by Harvard and six research institutions, the average age at which professors are first awarded an R01 research grant has risen from 39 to 43 since 1990. R01 grants to fund individual projects make up the largest portion of the funding that Harvard receives. Young researchers also tend to be creative and innovative, and so halting projects for this group is particularly hazardous. Furthermore, to maintain a foothold in the rapid...
...incidence and audacity of deadly terror attacks in north Africa has risen for the past two years - particularly since Algeria's Salafist Group for Combat and Preaching (GSPC) allied itself with al-Qaeda under the AQIM name. AQIM promised to internationalize its jihad against the Algiers regime by striking out at foreign enemies, notably Europeans, and adopting trademark al-Qaeda terror and communication techniques. As part of that, French intelligence officials say, AQIM and its sympathizers in North Africa are using kidnapping to both call attention to its cause and raise money...