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While the hope of finding al-Qaeda's bosses anytime soon remains just that--hope--the hunters have shown indications that they may be closer to picking up their targets' scent. A Pakistani intelligence official says Pakistani intelligence agents and CIA drones are searching the mountainsides for the second group that crossed from Afghanistan. In the message delivered last week, bin Laden signaled he would not allow himself to be captured alive. "I swore that I will not die except free, despite the bitter taste of death," he said. On that much, both bin Laden and his pursuers seem...
...Catalano said earlier this week that an officer entered a room in 10 DeWolfe last Friday night and charged four undergraduates with marijuana possession. He said the officer, who had been patrolling the parking lot adjacent to the building, investigated after detecting what he suspected was the scent of marijuana coming from a window on the second floor...
...Walleck said that she has detected the scent of marijuana in her second-floor hallway...
...ordered the review amid concerns that sloppy procedures contributed to the recent disclosure that nearly three years ago, CIA operatives in Milan snatched Egyptian terrorist-suspect Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr and flew him to Cairo--where the Islamic cleric claims he was tortured; to throw the Italians off the scent, the CIA reportedly told them that Nasr had fled to the Balkans. The Italian government publicly denies the U.S. insistence that the CIA cleared the caper with Rome's intelligence service in advance, and this summer an Italian court issued arrest warrants for 22 CIA operatives allegedly involved. Milan prosecutors...
...extends beyond the realm of cinema and studio art. He describes the ways in which lack of insight into the environment makes the unwary vulnerable to manipulation: “People who don’t critically engage their surroundings are easily manipulated. For instance, in casinos new money scent is pumped into the air to subconsciously reduce gamblers’ inhibitions about risking money.” Professor Stilgoe reports that many Environmental Studies graduates are presently working in advertising, an industry in which a talent for artful manipulation is highly prized.Architects also benefit from an understanding...