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WHAT WE THOUGHT THEN Intelligence officials were convinced that after the first Gulf War, Saddam had secretly retained a few dozen Scud-variant missiles, capable of traveling almost 600 miles, and was actively working to develop other long-range delivery systems...
...KNOW NOW Iraq was indeed planning on developing long-range ballistic missiles that could travel 600 miles or more, but none of the designs were even close to being produced. At the same time, the Duelfer report states that Iraq did not possess any covert arsenal of Scud-variant missiles...
...tied up the system for years, the case is already raising the question of whether French justice is more arbitrary than blind. - By James Graff A Hidden Danger? BRITAIN New research published in the Journal of Pathology suggested that as many as 3,800 Britons could be unknowingly harboring variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease. The government estimates that 141 people have died from vCJD since the illness was identified in 1995. Air of Regret SWITZERLAND The government apologized to Russia as investigators concluded that Swiss air traffic control problems were partly to blame...
...designed with at least one gender-neutral bathroom. The change will likely not affect the vast majority of Harvard students, but that does not mean it’s not one worth making. While the difference would be minor to most, the comfort conferred to transgender or gender-variant students and faculty could be great...
Surveying the school’s bathrooms, the BGLTSA attempted to raise campus awareness of the embarrassment, harassment and potential health issues of transgender or gender-variant students who lack the option of gender-non-specific bathrooms. According to the group’s recently released report, “Besides reinforcing gender norms, bathrooms that are clearly marked as male/female force many individuals to enter bathroom environments that they consider uncomfortable and unsafe.” The simple step of remarking bathrooms as gender-neutral would greatly alleviate this discomfort—not to mention open up more bathroom...