Word: massed
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...largest and smartest collections of genomic firms. The chief draw is the NIH, which dispenses $14 billion a year in research grants. But there are other attractions--proximity to Johns Hopkins, a start-up-friendly local government, an abundance of office space; and most of all, a critical mass of like-minded scientist-entrepreneurs determined to unravel the secrets of the genome and spin them into gold...
...Laden is the perfect example. His global network of jihadeers is not dependent on any state, and is able to take full advantage of the opportunities offered by globalization to move money and men around the world, and also - more ominously - to go in search of the weapons of mass destruction that would dramatically increase their ability to hurt their foes. Bin Laden has managed to operate precisely by taking advantage of the limits of central authority in such failed or failing states as Sudan, Yemen and Afghanistan. The United Nations Security Council this week, under U.S. urging, imposed...
...resident of Milton, Mass., she will spend Christmas at her proximal home...
...Yenching Restaurant on Mass. Ave. will remain open for Christmas and New Year's, according to its manager, Peter...
...were indeed guilty of other, real crimes: they all took part in the coup d'état otherwise known as the Great October Socialist Revolution. They all covered their hands in innocent blood when their Communist Party provoked civil war, unleashed Red terror or ordered collectivization, which resulted in mass exiles, executions and famines that claimed millions of lives. But accusing them of the real crimes they had committed was tantamount to self-accusation on the part of the party and the Soviet state they had so faithfully served. They were executed on the grounds of political expediency rather than...