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...last week, he listened calmly as presiding Judge Tan Senarong adjourned the trial to allow more evidence to be collected. Interviewed after the trial, the judge said the person responsible for the shooting was actually another member of the group, Som Doeun, and that Nhim Sophea merely touched the trigger accidentally in a bid to prevent the slaughter. Whatever happened that night in October, few expect the prosecutors to find additional witnesses to bolster the case against Hun Sen's nephew. Says Sok Sam Oeun, executive director of the nongovernmental legal-aid organization Cambodian Defenders Project: "I don't think...
...megaton ego--almost as much as U.S. charges that he ran a nuclear bazaar--persuaded Musharraf to force him into retirement. But Pakistani investigators remain leery of squeezing the national hero too tightly. Khan is a public icon, his hawkish face known to every schoolchild. Arresting him could trigger dangerous protest among Islamist extremists and senior military officers who feel Musharraf has already gone too far in appeasing the White House. Khan's travel has been restricted, and even inside Pakistan, he is always accompanied by two military officers. He rarely leaves his Islamabad mansion except to venture...
Both testosterone and estrogen trigger desire by stimulating the release of neurotransmitters in the brain. These chemicals are ultimately responsible for our moods, emotions and attitudes. And the most important of these for the feeling we call desire seems to be dopamine. Dopamine is at least partly responsible for making external stimuli arousing (among other things, it's thought to be the pleasure-triggering substance underlying drug addiction). "Being low on dopamine," says the University of Washington Medical School's Heiman, "correlates with being low on desire." And in men dopamine-enhancing drugs (including some antidepressants and anti-Parkinson...
According to Davis, the Bugbear virus may trigger a variety of side effects, ranging from benign to harmful. Some versions of the virus steal sensitive data like passwords and credit card numbers from the infected machine...
...that without good intelligence from the U.S. and other nations or the right to conduct spot inspections, they cannot verify a country's claims of compliance. Libya, they say, is proof that arms-control systems need to be strengthened. Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the IAEA, says the episode should trigger soul searching in countries building nuclear technology and urges a ban on uranium enrichment, except under international supervision...