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...Moreover, the idea of a U.S. war leader arriving in Baghdad to lecture the new government on what's good for Iraq is, to say the least, somewhat ill-considered. The overriding priority of the new government is to prove that it is independent of the U.S. It's going to face increasing pressure to ask the Americans to leave - even though it still needs them for its own security. The last thing the new Iraqi leadership can afford to be seen doing is snapping to attention when Don Rumsfeld barks commands...
...article, The Unimpressive Record of Atomic Diplomacy, McGeorge Bundy, who was John F. Kennedy's National Security Adviser, takes a somewhat different tack. Arguing that "there is very little evidence that American atomic supremacy was helpful in American diplomacy," Bundy cites Iran in 1946 and Quemoy and Matsu in 1955 and 1958. But he also suggests that atomic diplomacy did not affect the outcome of Korea either. Nixon says otherwise...
...dark, Numata heard the voices of three other victims, who advised her what to do. The first voice spoke gibberish; "I could not even make out if it was the voice of a man or woman." The second voice was somewhat clearer but faint. She could not understand what that voice was saying either...
...didn't you do it [the full exam] last year? A. Well, I think this is what has been misplayed somewhat. We knew at the time that there were two small polyps and they had got one, and we set a time later when I would go back in. And there was talk of the concern about blood. That was all dismissed because I took the further tests and examinations on that and there never was another trace. I'm a little embarrassed talking boldly about all of these plumbing secrets and everything. But I think I had an explanation...
...somewhat subtler series of experiments, Baltimore and his colleagues are studying how genes for disease-fighting antibodies are coordinated to respond to thousands of different invading microbes. They tailor-made a mouse gene for producing antibodies and inserted it into the DNA of a normal mouse. Although the antibody gene was bequeathed to every cell of the transgenic mouse, it was turned on (expressed) only where antibody genes normally operate: in the white blood cells. Now the scientists can determine just what gives the gene a preference for one tissue type over another, a crucial step in determining how cells...