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...professor of American Studies at Warsaw University. "It has failed in its duty to fix things." In the eyes of many Europeans, the same goes for Afghanistan, where the Taliban is resurgent, and for Islamic terrorists, too. Al-Qaeda and its allies have not mounted another attack on the scale of Sept. 11, but continue to take lives. Americans can find plenty to criticize in the way Europeans have awakened slowly to the threat posed by Islamic radicalism, and Bush is right to emphasize that the fight against it will be long. But by comparison with the cold war, this...
...virtual money that can be used to reimburse the driver of the carpool for half of the gas used on any given trip.For now, Shiftan, Corker, and a few investors are funding this part of the service. Once the service is available on a widespread scale, participating employers must pay a monthly fee so their employees can use GOOSE as a perk. Shiftan, who concentrated in Computer Science at Harvard, wrote the code for GOOSE and created the company’s website, www.readysetgoose.com.“I haven’t slept much since April,” Shifton...
...Foundation to establish a new institute dedicated to exploring the interface between biology and nanotechnology. The new Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology will support postdoctoral fellows as well as a lecture series in bionanoscience, a relatively young but rapidly expanding field that examines life on the nano-scale. “Understanding life at the smallest levels could offer dramatic changes in both basic biology and, on a more mundane level, transform a trip to the doctor’s office,” according to the original planning documents for the institute. “The intersections...
...Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have found that high levels of hostility may lead to pulmonary function deterioration. The study examined data gathered by the Veterans Administration Normative Aging Study on 670 men aged 45 to 86 who were assessed on the Cook-Medley Hostility Scale in 1986 and then subjected to follow-up pulmonary function examinations obtained over the course of eight years. Researchers found that the men who were categorized as “high hostility” performed worse on every examination than less hostile men. Even when confounding variables such as smoking...
...effective government in much of the country. On Tuesday, he called on Musharraf to close the radical Islamic madrassa schools in Pakistan whose graduates are ready-made recruits for extremists. His charge that the Taliban insurgency works out of Pakistan is backed by NATO, which underestimated the scale of the challenge when it took over Afghan counterinsurgency duties from the U.S., but it is strenuously denied by Musharraf, who claims that Karzai has disenfranchised the majority Pashtun ethnic group in Afghanistan...