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...Palestinian Authority in 2003, Arafat appointed Abbas as Prime Minister. Abbas called for an end to the armed uprising. Unable to compete with Arafat's autocratic ways and undercut by Israel and the U.S., Abbas quit in frustration after four months but worked to position himself as Arafat's likeliest successor...
...Intelligence Agency is more serious than ever about plans to expand its program of setting up cover jobs for CIA officers outside of the usual posts in the State Department and other government agencies. Some believe the CIA's non-official cover, or NOC (pronounced KNOCK), program is the likeliest way for the agency to penetrate terrorist organizations or even, say, the nuclear program of Kim Jong Il's closed regime in North Korea. "With terrorism, counter-proliferation - the kinds of threats that we face - you have to be more inventive in the way you deploy people overseas," said...
Having children may wreck both Mommy's and Daddy's figures. Researchers followed 4,500 couples for 20 years and found with each child a 7% increase in obesity among the women and 4% among the men. Likeliest reason? More kids mean busier lifestyles, more fast food and less time for exercise...
...sons Uday and Qusay, and the 23 other top henchmen still at large. As Saddam's closest adviser and consigliere--a source close to the family told TIME that even Saddam's sons needed Mahmud's permission to meet with their father--Mahmud is one of the likeliest figures to have remained in contact with Saddam after he disappeared two months ago. Indeed, U.S. sources say Mahmud has begun to talk of his travels with Saddam's sons in the days after U.S. forces tried to decapitate the regime with air strikes. U.S. officials last week were more confident than...
...likeliest someone, both men believed, was Linus Pauling. To a later generation, Pauling would be best known as an antiwar activist and the slightly batty advocate of vitamin C as the antidote to colds and cancer. But at mid-century he was the world's premier physical chemist, the man who had literally written the book on chemical bonds. A few months before Watson arrived, in fact, Pauling embarrassed the Cavendish by winning the race to figure out the structure of keratin, the protein that makes up hair and fingernails. (It was a long, complex corkscrew of atoms known...