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...dropped from 25% to less than 1%. In Pakistan, the site of repeated attacks, support for al-Qaeda fell from 25% in 2008 to 9% the next year. In 2007, the Pew Research Center found that in Pakistan, Lebanon, Indonesia and Bangladesh, support for terrorism had dropped by at least half since...
With a host of companies trying to tap into baby boomers' fear of senior moments, the growth in cognitive-fitness products has as much to do with aging consumers as it does with the discovery that adult brains can generate new cells. At least six weeks of sustained, intense learning generally results in increased brain thickness. This finding has fueled a hot theory in Alzheimer's research: the more you work out your brain, the more you accumulate what is referred to as cognitive reserve. (See more about the brain...
...bombing--the agency's worst such incident in more than 25 years--were shocking enough. Even more alarming were reports that the attacker, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, 32, was a double agent who had been providing information on al-Qaeda to U.S. and Jordanian officials for at least a year. Analysts say that in addition to straining ties between intelligence communities in Washington and Amman, the incident could hinder progress in hunting down terrorists, including Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's No. 2. Some officials speculate that al-Balawi, a Jordanian physician, may have been recruited to help...
Under that scenario, Florida's mess also becomes the country's in at least one respect. The state's GOP Senate primary contest between Crist and former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio is widely considered a focal point of this year's internecine war between moderates and conservatives for control of the Republican Party. Should the Rothstein scandal leak into that powder keg, it could exacerbate what already promises to be a particularly nasty campaign on both sides before the August primary. (See the 25 crimes of the century...
...thing about last week's deadly great-white shark attack, just south of Cape Town and about 15 minutes' drive from my house, is that everyone knows the sharks are there. We've been warned many times - not least by the annual shark attacks that happen up and down South Africa's lengthy coastline. We also know that the warm waters of False Bay, south of the city, are a favored breeding and feeding ground for great whites, particularly around Seal Island, a rock that sits in the middle of the bay and hosts a huge colony of Cape...