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...city. Most incidents are designed to send a message, however obscure, not to kill. That's cold comfort, however, to the other 201 countries sending teams to the Athens Olympics. The timing of last week's explosions - precisely 100 days before the opening of the Games - summoned the nightmare scenario that has haunted organizers since 9/11: a terrorist strike against the biggest show on earth. Every possible preventive measure seemed to be in place; the $1.2-billion Olympic security budget is over three times that of the last summer games, in Sydney, Australia, and security is being coordinated not just...
...Greek Public Order Minister George Voulgarakis conceded recently that tests had shown significant lapses in coordination of responses. "We have to shorten the delays," he said. Over the last year, U.S., British and other security experts have relentlessly been drilling armies of security personnel in every conceivable catastrophic scenario, from poison-gas attacks to hijacked civilian airliners. "All we do," commented one local commander, "is think the unthinkable." Since last week's blasts, Greek authorities have beefed up security at potential targets, especially diplomatic missions. This will hardly reassure skittish Olympic teams. While none has pulled out of the Games...
...overwhelming strength of the a cappella scene at Harvard provides an easy scapegoat for performers who constantly face the discouraging scenario of a cappella groups securing top venues like Sanders with relative ease...
...percent). By committing to a serious development assistance program, we could substantially undercut the wellsprings of terrorism. Economic growth would help more of the world’s poor afford AIDS vaccines (even the generic ones cost over $100 a year) and could prevent the nightmare scenario of millions of orphans ripe for recruitment by militants. Development would also enable weak states—debilitated by meager tax revenues, a dearth of human capital and rampant corruption—to improve their domestic security. Unable to uphold basic law and order throughout much of their territory, weak states can become...
...application to humans. The process by which she was produced is so technically difficult--not to mention ethically charged--that it is hard to see how it could be attempted with human subjects. In theory, the technique might be used to create stem cells, but even this scenario is a bit farfetched. What the experiment offers, however, is a tantalizing glimpse into one of the central mysteries of mammalian biology: Why do we need genes from both a mother and a father in order to be born...