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...military is stretched thin and taking a pounding. There are about 20,000 troops deployed in a conflict area half the size of Israel, and they-like their beleaguered American counterparts in Iraq-are outmaneuvered by a ruthless and elusive enemy that shelters amid a Muslim population largely hostile to Thai security forces. Two roadside bombings in May alone killed a total of 22 soldiers; their well-drilled killers executed some of the wounded survivors by shooting them in the head or strangling them. Last month, junta leader General Sonthi Boonyaratglin publicly admitted that the fighting in the south...
...peptide. After doctors remove a tumor, they use a special camera that captures near infrared photons to look at the body and see any stray cells the scalpel left behind. At those wavelengths, light from the fluorescent marker cannot be blocked by blood, other body fluids or even thin bone...
...standoff came a day after former White House political aide Sara Taylor testified in front of the Senate Judiciary committee on the same topic - whether the firing of federal prosecutors in 2006 was politically motivated. Taylor toed a thin line with her testimony, invoking the President's executive privilege at most points while maintaining that Bush was not involved in the situation. The White House contends that both she and Miers fall under a Justice Department opinion which concluded that senior presidential advisors can no more be compelled to abide by a Congressional subpoena than the President, regardless of whether...
...London and Glasgow cases are an excellent reminder of how thin the line is between a near miss and a catastrophe. An alert ambulance crew, an efficient parking-enforcement crew and a faulty bomb design may have prevented a massacre. And yet as the news of the car bombs broke, some politicians were more inclined to credit London's wondrous surveillance system. "The Brits have got something smart going. They have cameras all over London," said U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman. "I think it's just common sense to do that here much more widely...
...with a dog handler as backup, approach the house. A large, angry Polynesian man clad in a singlet and long baggy trousers opens the door. "Hey, you need a warrant," he yells as the officers walk into his house. "Not for this," says another officer. Another man, tall and thin, emerges and glares at the police, swearing, then starts head-butting the support pole of the garage...