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...Suicide Machine from accessing its site earlier this month, Suicide Machine's creators, and the suicides, are continuing. "Compared to the more than 350 million users [on Facebook], we think deleting a few hundred is not very impressive," says Langelaar. "But they picked up on it as a potential threat." LinkedIn, MySpace and Twitter have not yet publicly responded. (See a story on Foursquare's social-networking twist...
...Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model...
...didn't help that no single piece of information about Abdulmutallab was conclusive. For instance, a father's complaining that his son had joined the jihadist cause in Yemen doesn't automatically point to a threat to the homeland. Obama has vowed to improve intelligence sharing, but some experts are skeptical that the system can ever be fail-safe. "The next time, we may not have this many data points," says Bruce Hoffman, a counterterrorism expert at Georgetown University. "It may never be this good again...
...communists have been a major electoral force since the late 1960s. But while the left in Kerala has been in and out of office, Basu's Communist Party of India (Marxist) has been an unquestioned force in West Bengal for decades. Early in his political career, Basu harnessed the threat of massive strikes to take power - and keep it. A 1970 article in TIME about one particularly bloody wave of Marxist protests in West Bengal concluded: "No one doubts Basu's potential for mayhem." (See pictures of India's Nehru dynasty...
...weapons sales to Taiwan. Communist-run China split with nationalist-run Taiwan following the civil war in 1949, and it continues to regard the island as a renegade province. While the U.S. recognizes Taiwan and the mainland as part of one China, it continues to arm Taiwan against any threat of reunification by force - a policy regarded by Beijing as provocative interference in an internal Chinese dispute. Beijing has declared it will take the island back by force should its leaders seek formal independence, and the U.S. has long hinted it would come to Taiwan's defense if war broke...