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...worst-case scenario of the past week--that Shi'ite militants will form an Islamic republic with Iranian support--is unlikely. Iraq has a significant secular middle class. The leading Iraqi ayatullah, Ali al-Sestani, believes in the separation of church and state. The Iraqi and Iranian Shi'ites have a history of mutual disdain and bloodshed. And even Iran's Foreign Minister, Kamal Kharrazi, said last week that Iraq's ethnic and religious diversity makes it an improbable candidate for an Islamic republic...
...bloody regime would volunteer to fill the vacuum. Serbia would return to nationalist rule. That's the picture police in Belgrade painted for Time last week as they wrapped up their investigation into the Djindjic murder and prepared for a trial that begins in July. It's an apocalyptic scenario, perhaps, but the plan stood a 50% chance of success, according to Nenad Milic, Deputy Interior Minister and leader of the police investigation. "They believed that the police would stay put and not step out of the box," Milic told Time. Instead, the assassination produced a massive crackdown against criminal...
...science that could one day make such creatures possible - and worries that it could reduce the planet to a lifeless "gray goo," that in the next couple of months he will convene a nanotech summit at his country residence, Highgrove House in Gloucestershire. But while Prince Charles ponders doomsday scenarios, millions of people already use the products of nanotech research every day without even knowing it. Consumers of Sunsorb brand sunscreen have nanotech to thank for that product's invisible protection against ultraviolet rays. And it's nanotech that makes Pilkington's Activ windows shed dirt in the rain...
...worst-case scenario of the past week - that Shi'ite militants will form an Islamic republic with Iranian support - is unlikely. Iraq has a significant secular middle class. The leading Iraqi ayatullah, Ali al-Sestani, believes in the separation of church and state. The Iraqi and Iranian Shi'ites have a history of mutual disdain and bloodshed. And even Iran's Foreign Minister, Kamal Kharrazi, said last week that Iraq's ethnic and religious diversity makes it an improbable candidate for an Islamic republic...
...Saudi Arabia is being abandoned as a strategic ally. The fundamentals of that relationship - which long predated the deployment of U.S. troops there and are based on Saudi Arabia's oil production, its geographic location and its longstanding friendship with the U.S. - remain unchanged. Even in the best-case scenario in Iraq, it take a very long time before the government and people of Iraq are as closely aligned with the U.S. as the Saudis...