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...trial metal detectors were posted outside the courtroom and individuals were asked for photo identification and their names and addresses were logged by court security officers. At the close of proceedings on Thursday defense attorney Charles Swift protested the practice. "The suggestion is that the gallery may be a threat," said Swift, calling the measure "highly prejudicial...
...retracted its earlier estimate. That estimate of the rate of Himalayan glacier loss because of warming, which appeared in the same assessment that earned the global body a share of the Nobel Peace Prize, was "poorly substantiated," the IPCC said. (See TIME's photo-essay "Himalayan Glaciers Under Threat...
...York and most other cities have been asleep at the wheel for the last five and 10 years - this stuff is going on everywhere," says Guy Cecala, CEO of Inside Mortgage Finance Publications, a stable of industry newsletters, who worries that the very idea of affordable housing is under threat...
...Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut said he was "disappointed" because the inquiry "does not adequately recognize the specific threat posed by violent Islamist extremism to our military," and added that the homeland-security panel he chairs will investigate. The Congressman whose district includes Fort Hood agrees. "The report ignores the elephant in the room - radical Islamic terrorism is the enemy," says Republican Representative John Carter. "We should be able to speak honestly about good and bad without feeling like you've done something offensive to society...
...come without challenges, though. Having borrowed heavily to buy Cadbury, Kraft will be under pressure to cut costs and raise margins at the British company. To some, that spells job cuts. The British trade union Unite claimed earlier this month that some 7,000 Cadbury workers would be under threat if the proposed takeover went through. Another analyst, Howard Wheeldon, a senior strategist at BGC Partners, questioned on Tuesday whether the acquisition would herald "a partial breakup" of the British business. (See a TIME video about a chocolate-bacon...