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PROJECTILES No one likes rubber bullets--not the people being fired at nor the people doing the firing. "It's very easy to put out an eye, to blind someone," says Glenn Shwaery, director of the Nonlethal Technology Innovation Center. "How do you redesign a projectile to avoid that?" The answer is, with softer, flatter bullets, beanbags and sponges that spread out the impact and hit like an open-handed slap from Andre the Giant. Shwaery's team is looking into an even more radical solution: "tunable" bullets that can be adjusted in the field to be harder or softer...
...stood in a federal courtroom in Virginia last Thursday and told Judge Leonie M. Brinkema that he was a "member of al-Qaeda" and wanted "to enter a plea today of guilty, because this will ensure to save my life." But since he had not cut a deal to avoid the death penalty, Brinkema told him to think it over and recessed proceedings for a week. Such antics have dominated the trial ever since Brinkema ruled Moussaoui could represent himself--after he claimed his court-appointed lawyers were trying to kill him. He has filed more than 60 petitions, such...
...that the "real economy" stays stable and the markets settle down. More made-for-TV indictments are likely this week, which will help too. But just in case, one topic slated for discussion at the Waco forum is-as White House communications director Dan Bartlett puts it-"ways to avoid a double-dip recession." And as some economists point out, on a graph, a double-dip recession looks like...
...criticize the kingdom's religious establishment. "If I publish anything, I'll get kicked out of a job," he says. "And yet they allow the extremists to get away with anything they want." The U.S. has provided little support to those moderate voices inside Saudi Arabia, largely to avoid doing anything that would undermine the regime and disrupt the world's energy market. But that's no longer good enough. As Sept. 11 showed, the security of the U.S. depends on more than cheap...
...leadership is concerned about the deteriorating condition of Palestinian life in the West Bank and Gaza. Poverty rates that have spiraled past 50 percent and the social and economic trauma of living under siege and curfew are taking a heavy toll on increasingly desperate ordinary Palestinians. Hamas wants to avoid anything that would cause the group to be seen as prolonging that agony, or provoke a conflict with...