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...forces didn't have sufficiently precise missions or means," Alliot-Marie told French radio, recalling the deaths of 71 French soldiers in the ill-conceived mission to Bosnia in the early 1990s. In October 1983, 58 French peacekeepers died in a suicide bombing in Beirut widely attributed to a precursor of Hizballah. "The sense of déjà vu is overpowering," says François Heisbourg, a security expert who was a chief adviser to the Defense Minister at the time. "I hope the government doesn't put our troops in harm's way without a clear commitment that...
...step for a very old technology. A 1st century Greek may have invented the first coin-operated vending machine to sell holy water. The modern precursor of today's machines surfaced in 1880s London, dispensing postcards. Since then, machines have been used to sell everything from, well, soup to nuts. But they've remained fully rooted in the analog world. Enter Crowley's server-based company. It transforms video-game machines to offer 30 different games instead of one, and gives jukeboxes the capacity to deliver 2.2 million songs. Crowley expects the Coke machines could tap into that same tuneful...
...hearing yesterday - a precursor to a court-martial known as an ?Article 32 hearing? - Watada sat calmly in his fatigues, gave no statement, and during breaks answered no questions from the many reporters gathered to watch the proceedings. However, military prosecutors played several clips of Lt. Watada speaking in public about his reasons for not deploying...
...episode, a precursor of Rice's outmaneuvering of Bush hard-liners when she became Secretary of State, is revealed in Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a forthcoming book about the Green Zone by the Washington Post's former Baghdad bureau chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran. The details were confirmed for TIME by an official who was involved, who added a telling coda: Bremer actually liked the new arrangement because he "got to deal with Condi, who had the President's ear." Since moving out of the West Wing to take over State in early 2005, Rice has returned there often...
Researchers have discovered that many tissues and organs contain precursor cells that act in many ways like stem cells. The skin, intestines, liver, brain and bone marrow contain these stem cell-- mimicking cells, which could become a reservoir of replacement cells for treating diseases such as leukemias, stroke and some cancers. "Brain stem-cells can make almost all cell types in the brain, and that may be all we need if we want to treat Parkinson's disease or ALS," says Dr. Arnold Kriegstein, who directs the University of California at San Francisco's Institute for Regeneration Medicine. "Embryonic stem...