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Four years ago, a handful of scientists at a government-run South Korean nuclear research institute were experimenting with a gun that blasts laser beams at elements like gadolinium. The experiments weren't successful and the scientists decided to dismantle the equipment. But before they did, somebody suggested using the laser to enrich uranium?a process that produces the fuel for one type of nuclear bomb. "Scientists are full of curiosity," explains Chang In Soon, president of the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, where the experiment took place. "They're interested in this kind of thing...
...Kerry's test in Boston was to show voters that he is not weak, Bush's task at the Republican Convention in New York City this week is to show that he is not wrong, that his strength comes not from a six-gun temperament but from judgment that has matured through three years of hard testing. His vital audience is not that portion of the electorate that sees him as a savior, nor is it the inflamed opposition that calls him a liar and a zealot. He needs to reach the voters who are unsure about either voting...
...spirited fight for UFJ indicates a sea change in Japanese mergers and acquisitions, observers say. "This deal will be the starting gun for lots of mergers that are not the old-style friendly negotiations in the boardroom with the [Ministry of Finance] patting them on the back," says Stephen Givens, a corporate lawyer in Tokyo. The change has been encouraged by corporate reforms that over the past several years have eroded Japan Inc.'s favorite protective mechanism: the extensive cross-ownership of shares among affiliated companies, a practice that makes it easier for insiders to repel outsiders and maintain control...
...around them, and 7.62-mm bullets buzzed past in swarms. At the other end of Haifa Street, insurgents stepped out from buildings and let loose their RPGs. Women hurled potatoes onto the street like grenades, duping the Iraqi soldiers into diving to the ground, while male insurgents unloaded machine-gun fire or threw real grenades. During three hours of fighting, U.S. forces finally unleashed high-explosive rounds from a 25-mm cannon, obliterating the two-man RPG teams, to quiet the boulevard. Two Iraqi guardsmen were killed, and U.S. commanders say their troops killed dozens of insurgents in the fire...
...detainees were Shi'ites and the bulk of the hard-core insurgents in this neighborhood are Sunnis. What wasn't reported is that Task Force 1/9 was ambushed three minutes into the operation and hit by 26 RPGs, eight roadside bombs and relentless small-arms fire during the gun battles that followed. One grenade landed just 3 ft. from Captain Foley; a concrete fence and the quick reactions of the specialist who pushed Foley out of the way are all that saved him. "We handed them their arses, but we were lucky," says Foley. "Each morning I thank...