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...gathering.” Failed and conflict-torn states provide safe havens for terrorists, but the Bush administration’s response to crises like Liberia and Sudan has been lackluster and glacially slow. The proliferation of nuclear technology could enable a terrorist network like al Qaeda to develop a bomb, yet the administration failed to sanction Pakistan for pardoning Abdul Qader Khan, the scientist who confessed to selling nuclear weapons technology to Libya, Iran and North Korea...
...DIED. LAWRENCE FREEDMAN, 85, American forensic psychiatrist who studied the darkest corners of the human mind; in Chicago. Freedman mapped the psyches of assassins, mass murderers and terrorists, hoping to understand the psychological causes of extreme violence. Appointed by President Lyndon Johnson to develop a profile of John F. Kennedy's assassins, Freedman also analyzed serial killer John Wayne Gacy in 1980, testifying for the defense in his trial. Gacy was later executed for the murder of 33 men and boys...
...stem cells, that science still requires a great deal of work. Senators John Kerry and John Edwards have both invoked Reeve's advocacy of embryonic stem-cell funding in their campaign against the Bush Administration, which restricts research on religious grounds. But scientists must first coax stem cells to develop into nerve cells before they can begin to put them to work in the spine...
...above = highly spiritual, a real mystic; 12-13 = spiritually aware, easily lost in the moment; 8-11 = spiritually average; could develop more spiritual life if desired; 6-7 = a practical empiricist lacking self-transcendence; 1-5 = highly skeptical, resistant to developing spiritual awareness...
...their exercise regimen. Rowers don’t do that much weight training anyway but they still tend to build up a fair amount of muscle. If they spend all winter riding the ergometer—a rowing machine designed to increase endurance—they are going to develop some pretty huge shoulders...