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Bush himself has not made the situation any better. Commenting on the standoff Monday, he referred to the residents of Pakistan as “Pakis,” a strong ethnic slur. Although the White House later explained that the use of the word was inadvertent, the slip is indicative of the level of attention the Bush administration has given the escalating situation. Effective diplomacy requires words that are chosen carefully, and small missteps can undo the work of days of negotiations. Musharraf was one of four world leaders whose names Bush could not recall during the campaign...
...special forces, Rais had "confirmed the absence" from the area of both Omar and Osama bin Laden but agreed to help in the search. The Americans spent three days in Baghran, seized heavy weapons and ammunition, but made no arrests. The protracted surrender talks appeared to have let Omar slip away yet again. People in Baghran were saying he might be next door in Oruzgon province...
...begging you, pass this now. By next year, another group of kids will slip through,” said Emma Lang, a junior at CRLS. Lang attended a private elementary school with little socioeconomic diversity and says she learned “how to talk to different people” when she came to CRLS...
...noise of the first crash traveled two miles north to the Alphabet City firehouse that is shared by Engine 28 and Ladder 11. In good humor as always, Mike was sitting in the front office joking with guys changing shifts when the computer spit out the white slip of paper summoning Engine 28. The six men of Ladder 11 suited up and waited for their slip. Michael Cammarata, 22 and still living in his parents' basement, dialed his father. "Tell everybody I'm all right," he said. Lieut. Michael Quilty, the senior officer on the ladder, called his wife...
...nuts and bolts of its discovery strategy are not radically new. Vertex essentially finds the structures of its target proteins and designs molecules that slip selectively into the grooves found along the proteins' surfaces. It did this expertly in designing the anti-HIV drug Agenerase, which it promotes with GlaxoSmithKline. A handful of other firms have developed their own drugs in similar ways...