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...quarter of the city is sealed off to outsiders. On the streets, where a deceptive calm prevails, soldiers in fatigues plunge through the streets at high speeds, flashing their weaponry. Nearby civilian cars swerve and screech to a halt. The faintest sign of a threat, the drivers fear, may trigger shooting...
...That discussion will begin in earnest on Thursday, when the Human Rights Council meets in Geneva to consider whether to bury the report in the international body's labyrinthine archives, as Israel would prefer, or forward it for action by the Security Council. The latter course would trigger a process in which Israel and Hamas are both given six months to carry out their own independent investigations into the charges raised by the Goldstone report. If they fail to do so, the issue could be referred for prosecution by the International Criminal Court in the Hague, which could result...
...intriguing and, frankly, puzzling snippets of information--and plenty of questions. The trial actually tested two vaccines: one that primes the immune system by training cells to recognize and destroy the virus and one that boosts that response. Neither shot has proved effective alone, yet together they seemed to trigger a modest immunity--although no one yet knows why. Fifty-one people who received the vaccine became infected with HIV, compared with 74 who received a saltwater placebo, a barely significant difference. And while a lower risk of infection normally derives from a drop in the amount of virus circulating...
...Kerry-Lugar conditions most likely to trigger nationalist resistance is the requirement that Pakistan grant U.S. investigators "direct access to Pakistani nationals" associated with nuclear-proliferation networks. That's a reference to Dr. A.Q. Khan, the Pakistani nuclear scientist who confessed to sharing nuclear-weapons secrets with Iran, North Korea and Libya. Although he was placed under house arrest in Pakistan, authorities there have consistently refused to allow him to be questioned by foreign investigators. "For all his sins, he's still considered a hero in Pakistan," says Tariq Azeem, an opposition senator who served in the government of former...
...chances of a public option surviving in the Senate seem unlikely. If it is voted down, as expected, that may create an opening for Republican Senator Olympia Snowe - who is the only Republican still considering a yes vote on the health bill - to come in with her so-called trigger proposal to create a public plan as a fallback if private insurance companies do not do enough to bring down health-care costs. Snowe refrained from offering that amendment in the Finance Committee, in hopes of having a better shot on the Senate floor...