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...Brown took center stage in his recent race for the Senate seat against Democrat and Mass. Attorney General Martha M. Coakley. As the race grew heated, Wagley said that she felt the need to take action and make a difference in the election...
Hijackings in the U.S. grew rarer in the '90s, and the ranks dwindled again; by 2001, there were reportedly just 33 U.S. air marshals left. Following 9/11, Congress reportedly pushed that number to 4,000, but as the years passed, skepticism returned. One critic, Representative John Duncan Jr. of Tennessee, noted that since 2001, the agency has averaged slightly more than four arrests a year--at a cost per arrest of around $200 million. There were no air marshals aboard Flight 253 on Dec. 25, but that may not have mattered: civilians, after all, took down the would-be bomber...
...forests around the world. The result is that some plants do grow bigger, says Field, "but an increase in growth doesn't necessarily mean an increase in the plants you want." At Duke University, one of the sites used in the FACE program, he says, "the pine trees grew more, but poison ivy grew a lot more. In our own experiments, the plants most sensitive to carbon enrichment tend to be the weeds." (See the top 10 new species...
...grew up in musical theater," he said, noting that she performed in a public performance of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in New York City...
...learn to use arms and spiritually prepare for holy war. Al-Awlaki stops short of telling his readers to go out and fight unbelievers. Instead, he suggests it is enough to have the "right intention" and to pray for "martyrdom." But later in 2009, al-Awlaki's tone grew more strident. "I pray that Allah destroys America and all its allies," he said in a blog post. "And the day that happens, and I assure you it will and sooner than you think, I will be very pleased." If al-Awlaki merely exhorted his audience to jihad, he might have...