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...Qaeda ranks - and a good many of them coming from France," says Jacquard. "It's becoming clear that the drama and terrible audacity [of Sept. 11] propelled a lot of fence sitters into the camp of jihad." While France appears to be a focal point of plotting and transit among al-Qaeda members and sympathizers in Europe, London remains the clandestine center for its logistical, financial, transport and strategic activity. With the latest arrests and the ongoing search for a still-unknown quantity of ricin somewhere in London, fears have increased that the long-dreaded terror attack on the city...
...approach to locating planets, called the transit technique, depends upon observing changes in the level of brightness of light that distant stars emit...
This is the first time that the transit technique has actually been used to discover a planet...
NASA will launch a mission in 2006 named Kepler to use the transit technique to check for the existence of earth-sized planets...
Once the more efficient transit technique has located earth size planets, another NASA mission will follow Kepler between 2012 and 2015 to check for life on these planets...