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...covert spies, police investigators, foreign intelligence agents, sophisticated computers and satellites. The computer programs correlate thousands of overseas passport numbers, travel itineraries of foreign nationals, secret cables from spies on the ground, reports from friendly foreign intelligence services and phone intercepts worldwide. CIA sources tell Waller that this method has worked before: in 1991, as the center was tracking Saddam Hussein's military buildup before the Persian Gulf War, the CIA computers were able to identify a group of potential Iraqi terrorists before they even attempted an attack on American targets. By tracking one of the terrorists, an Iraqi military...
...research in this country. I arrived at the NIH as a 28-year-old doctor seeking two things: the credentials to become a medical school professor and an alternative to service in Vietnam. Then, one day some months later, I was abruptly transformed into a committed scientist when a method I was developing to detect expression of a gene suddenly worked. At that moment, I knew the intoxicating power of measurement and the sweet anticipation of my own results...
...would-be mother douches many days before or after having sex. It also doesn't matter whether women use commercial douches, mix vinegar and water or use plain water. But as TIME's Janice Horowitz cautions: "This doesn't mean that women should consider douching as their method of birth control. It's nowhere close to 100 percent effective." Jenifer Mattos
...just rest there. He must turn the cable guy into a victim of TV addiction--all he knows about life he learned as a neglected child parked in front of the tube. When its stupid pieties don't work in real life, he embraces its other method of problem solving: violence. Hard even for Carrey to riff under that weight; his director, Ben Stiller, is more awed than helpful. Aiming, perhaps, for a neat double helix of black humor and prankishness, they've ended up with a pretty ugly granny knot...
...from? Someone certainly seems to think that seniors have plenty of extra cash sitting around. By June, every student has received at least one mailing from the Senior Class Gift. This fund-raising campaign, organized by seniors to aid the University's general fund, uses an unpleasant if effective method of solicitation. While most seniors are asked to give whatever they can, the gift organizers appeal to a small number of wellheeled students for gifts of $250 or more. How do the organizers know who can give the big bucks? They use an incredibly reliable method known as word...