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...their arsenals of destructive weapons. These advocates contend that the 11 relatively quiet years since the end of the Gulf War, especially the four years since Iraq expelled the previous group of U.N. weapons inspectors, prove that Hussein would never risk his life or his power in order to strike the U.S. or its allies. Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.) argued in August that “containment of Saddam is working… He would not, in my judgment, initiate an attack with a weapon of mass destruction because it would lead to his own destruction… He?...
...With bin Laden still at large and al-Qaeda continuing to strike, al-Jubeir's PR campaign faces considerable odds. The history of Saudi support for bin Laden doesn't help. There was a time, in fact, when America's leaders thought it was an exceedingly good idea for wealthy Saudis to send their millions to Osama bin Laden to be used for purposes of jihad. That was back in the mid-1980s, when the target of Bin Laden's jihad was the Soviet army occupying Afghanistan. Bin Laden was a star fundraiser and organizer for a program organized...
Hooton believed that all social problems had biological roots and that humans should be bred “for a better stock.” He called for “a sit-down reproductive strike of the busy breeders among the morons, criminals, and social ineffectuals of our population...
...forms of cheating—from unpermitted collaboration to buying and selling papers—will be effective and will become valuable tools to thwart cheating; such policies should use peer pressure to make academic dishonesty shame-worthy. Honor codes that boast heavy-handed “one strike, you’re out” punishments, however, will be counterproductive to creating the necessary atmosphere to criticize and reform cheaters...
...cost the already cash-strapped airline industry billions of dollars, but defense officials believe last Thursday's botched missile strike on an Israeli airliner will raise pressure for the installation of sophisticated electronic protection gear on civilian planes. It's a problem the Pentagon has been grappling with for some time: Three years ago, the Defense Department told Congress the biggest threat to its cargo planes were shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles like the ones fired in Mombassa. Three months ago, on August 27, the Pentagon awarded a $23 million contract to outfit four Air Force C-17 cargo...