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...bombs, gun battles, kidnappings and assassinations that make life in Iraq a fearful hell. Winning "that game" is Job One for Iraq's leaders. The very way the new government took power underscores the need. In a brief, stealthy ceremony improvised two days early to thwart feared attacks timed for the official date of June 30, U.S. proconsul L. Paul Bremer handed a blue folder to Prime Minister Allawi and with it sovereign responsibility for restoring Iraq to normality. Within an hour, Bremer was gone, his quick departure emblematic of Washington's exhausted efforts to birth a model nation...
Think diet soda helps you lose weight? Think again. According to a study in the International Journal of Obesity, artificially sweetened, low-calorie foods can thwart your ability to regulate how much you eat--if you are a rat, that is. Researchers found that lab animals sometimes fed saccharin-sweetened liquid consumed more food than did rats given an equally sweet but always high-calorie liquid. (Rats given a high-cal supplement the consistency of milk also gained more weight than did rats fed a thicker, pudding-like substance.) The study's authors think the same phenomenon may hold true...
...collusion, but parliament's legal advisers told them such a release would breach Spanish privacy-protection laws. So far, the inquiry has provided riveting political theater but little more. Unless both parties get down to examining how the terrorists carried out the atrocities, it won't do much to thwart future attacks. "It's good to have a commission, but honestly I'm not sure anything useful will come of it," says Juan Avilés, director of the University Institute for the Investigation of Internal Security. "I'm afraid the main question will be a political squabble about...
...what I have just suggested is disproved, or even called into question, by any exceptions—and I do not deny that there are some. To take just one example, a grassroots effort, however ill-conceived and poorly informed it may have been, was impressively able to thwart Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby’s proposal to replace shopping period with a regime of preregistration...
...under cinder-block tenements in Shabourah, the refugee camp in Rafah. Home to 90,000 Palestinians, the camp once extended to the border, but dozens of refugee homes have been demolished over the course of the intifadeh to build a 300-yd. buffer zone between camp and border to thwart smugglers. Now, Israeli military officials tell TIME, they hope to extend the buffer to 900 yds., which would mean a destruction of hundreds more refugee homes...