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...effort has been impeded because virtually no country capable of manufacturing centrifuges is willing to sell them to Iraq. Baghdad has thus embarked on a strategy of purchasing the technology and materials necessary to construct its own centrifuges. Tales abound of secretive transfers of nuclear- related technology -- some completed and some prevented -- between Western countries and Iraq. Two years ago, a British engineering firm in Coventry, Matrix-Churchill International, was found by British customs to have exported precision lathes and supplied training to Iraqi engineers. There was nothing illegal about either transaction. In March a joint Anglo-American sting operation...
...managed to hold together the worldwide coalition against Iraq. Strains and threats abound, and Saddam Hussein has made adroit attempts to exploit them. But fundamentally, the coalition is still united...
Nonetheless, complaints abound. Critics of standardized testing have long charged that the SATs contain built-in cultural and class biases, which put women and minorities at a disadvantage. They claim that the multiple-choice questions do not effectively gauge students' critical thinking skills or their future potential...
...meets-girl plots come from long ago, but charm and energy abound in the Caribbean fable Once On This Island, the Gershwin revival Oh, Kay! and a biography of Buddy Holly...
...Rumors Abound...