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Nine days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush told the U.S. Congress, "Americans are asking, 'Why do they hate us?'" Unlocking the mystery of what motivates Islamic extremists like Osama bin Laden has become the most urgent intellectual challenge of our time. Occidentalism: A Short History...
Most attempts to uncover the roots of Islamic rage are unflattering to Islam and to Muslims. In his 1981 book Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, V.S. Naipaul suggested that anger and dispossession are endemic to Islam and easily spill over into fanaticism. For others, Islamic terrorism is the most...
In labs across the globe, a biological “space race” of sorts is pitting nation against nation in a competition to uncover the therapeutic potential of stem cells. Only this time, the foreign competitors are way ahead.
RESIGNED. KAREN JURGENSEN, editor of USA Today, and her colleague HAL RITTER, managing editor of news; in the wake of a report that blamed poor editorial oversight for the paper's failure to uncover deceptions in the work of star reporter Jack Kelley; in McLean, Va. Kelley, who resigned in...
The Holy Grail here is the ability to find valuable patterns in otherwise incomprehensible amounts of data. For several years, boutique investment shops and the big Wall Street firms have had success aggregating oceanic-scale, real-time data and churning them through a complex, highly proprietary black box to come...