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WHAT MADE LIBYA DECIDE TO DISMANTLE ITS WMD? We started to ask ourselves, "By manufacturing nuclear weapons, against whom are we going to use them?" World alliances have changed. We had no target. And then we started thinking about the cost. If someone attacks you and you use a nuclear bomb, you are in effect using it against yourself...
...last week in Milan when five Muslim men who had recruited fighters for Iraq were acquitted of terrorism charges. Judge Clementina Forleo noted that the 1999 draft U.N. convention on terrorism stipulates that paramilitary activity in war zones does not violate international law as long as it does not target civilians. Because there was no evidence that the men recruited by the two Moroccan and three Tunisian defendants planned to attack civilians, Forleo ruled that their actions hadn't "exceeded guerrilla activity" - even though she conceded that the men had signed up militants to go to Iraq. They were convicted...
Another classic moment that Carson's eulogizers trotted out last week came in 1965 when Ed Ames of Daniel Boone, demonstrating a tomahawk throw, landed his ax squarely in the crotch of a paper target. Carson's greatness was reflected not just in the zinger he came up with--"I didn't even know you were Jewish!"--but in what came before. Watch the playback: he lets the laughter crescendo--five seconds, 10. He knows he has the joke. He knows it will kill. But you cannot have it yet. For a moment, he is keeping it for himself, like...
Some of the smartest scam artists, Minkow explains, target groups united by religion, race or ethnic origin. From 1998 to 2001, at least 80,000 people lost $2 billion in religious-investor frauds, according to the North American Securities Administrators Association, a group representing state regulators. In fact, most of the eight major frauds Minkow helped uncover in the past year have involved hustlers trying to sell investments to church groups...
...drugs to attack disease-causing proteins might never be realized unless he pursued it himself. He founded Astex, based in Cambridge, England, so he could develop his own flexible approach to molecular research. He calls it "fragment based," because rather than throwing an entire proposed drug molecule at the target protein, he throws just pieces at a time...