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...Ph.D. in microbiology," says an investigator. "It doesn't look like someone who has been educated in the Middle East." The writing, adds another agent, "looks like what I learned with a nun beating my hand." But the hijackers had worked hard to blend in and hide in plain sight too. And no one was eager to underestimate their cunning again...
With Anthrax in the mail and a war under way whose end is nowhere in sight, it's hardly surprising that a lot of people are feeling anxious these days. For most of us, the tightness in the stomach comes at moments of crisis, but it's manageable, and it goes away again. For others, though--especially those who tend to be anxious anyway--the feeling can be overwhelming. And while such severe anxiety can be transient, it can sometimes persist for weeks--or even longer...
...than the last. Evolutionary biologists scour the hills for one more pelvic girdle to add to the collection. Physicists build gi-normous machines to refine their test parameters of desiccated theories that have been around for decades, if not centuries. Molecular biologists use polymerase chain reaction on everything in sight to find the next link in some signaling pathway. Linguists chronicle yet another moribund language. Computer scientists, taking shelter from the dot-com disintegration, fret over the computational efficiency of the next trendy problem. Economists run endless regressions on the next exogenous variable they have failed to account...
...Revenue Service estimates these deposits are costing the U.S. alone $70 billion a year in uncollected taxes. But tax havens, with their anonymity and lax oversight, aren't just for tax cheats. They're also an ideal financial way station for terrorists, who want to park money out of sight until they need it to pay for training camps or to pull off an attack...
...Crimson’s fast start put the boat far ahead of Dartmouth and within sight of Navy. But Harvard wasn’t able to hold onto the speed of its fast start and never caught the Mishipmen...