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This caveat did not prevent the scientist from describing what research they were conducting and where they saw it headed, however...
...fingered by Beghal. Virtually all were married, had children and held steady jobs; few had any association with known radical groups. Nothing in the past of fugitive Daoudi, for example, gave cause for suspicion, or indicated a sympathy with terrorist causes. Respected by his peers as a talented computer scientist, he secretly applied his skills to ensure safe Internet communication between network members. "These are the people you?d never suspect when attacks occur - the handful of ?sleepers? hiding among millions of potential suspects and victims," the official says. "They all carefully applied the technique taught in Afghan camps...
...Nobel prizes are co-sponsored by a number of Harvard groups. The official sponsor is the scientist-run science humor magazine, the Annals of Improbable Research (AIR). Co-sponsors include the Harvard Computer Society, the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Physics Students...
...Dava Sobel?s "Longitude" became an international bestseller, translated into more than 20 languages. Sobel, a former NYT science reporter, went on to write "Galileo?s Daughter," the story of the renaissance scientist?s life and times, and his relationship with his daughter, Suor Maria Celeste, a Poor Clare nun. Now, Sobel has edited and translated "Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633" (Walker; November 16). Kirkus is transported, giving the book a starred review. "The gentle, intelligent voice of Galileo?s daughter speaks across the centuries in 124 remarkable epistles--published for the first time...
...view is shared by extremists throughout the Islamic world, from Mindanao to Morocco. While it is more comfortable to believe that such fanaticism is rooted only in ignorance, in Pakistan, a member of an Islamic militant organization is as likely to be educated and urbane - an engineer, a computer scientist, a military officer or a businessman. Many tried living in America or Europe and slunk back home, shocked and disturbed by the clash of Western culture and values with their own. Alienated, they fall back on Islam to regain their identity...