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...made apparent on April 1 when the police and coast guard raided a boat in the southern port city of Chittagong, stumbling onto a treasure trove of illegal weapons: 2,090 submachine guns, 150 rocket launchers, 25,000 grenades and more than 1.1 million bullets. The authorities had to transport their catch in 10 trucks. With so much weaponry pouring into Bangladesh, the country's gangsters and Islamic terrorists are well equipped to cause mayhem. Since April, for example, local newspapers have claimed that a gang of Islamic terrorists headed by a man known as Bangla Bhai ("Bengali Brother...
...molecules called free radicals, which can damage DNA. Another set directs the creation of proteins called chaperones; they help other proteins fold into their proper shapes. They also detect and destroy improperly folded proteins that can cause such aging-related ailments as Huntington's disease. Other genes affect the transport of fat around the body--which may also have an effect on aging--and create proteins that kill invading microbes. "It's like an orchestra," says Kenyon. "The conductor is the hormones. You have the flutes as the antioxidant genes. The violins would be the chaperones, the cellos the metabolic...
...farce. Chechen guerrillas had demonstrated their power by occupying parts of the republic's capital, Grozny, a few days earlier. The Kremlin did not see it that way. "There are no signs of terrorism," the chief spokesman of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Sergei Ignatchenko, insisted last Wednesday. Transport Minister Igor Levitin dismissed the idea that the tragedies might be linked. "They belong to different air companies, and were flying to different locations," he told journalists. Meanwhile, President Vladimir Putin appeared on state TV, discussing the harvest and the new school year. By Friday, the official line was unraveling...
...main road to the beachside suburb of Vouliagmeni, stymied by a local bus that seems to stop every 50 m. "One hundred fifty-six euros," Spyros says, nodding enviously at the empty outside lane. The five red rings on the shimmering asphalt mark it as reserved for official Olympic transport, and the fine is savage...
...foreigners. Whoever wins, the more disturbing development is that some Iraqi jihadis, hoping to take their fight beyond Iraq's borders, are threatening to launch a terrorist campaign in the U.S. "If America continues to shield its people from the truth," says an al-Zarqawi loyalist, "we shall transport the battle to where their public cannot...