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...While Power and Stanton both see a mounting danger of widespread genocide in Iraq, there is certainly not consensus on the threat. Other human rights organizations, like the Committee on Conscience at the U.S. Holocaust Museum and the International Crisis Group, do not see the conditions for genocide developing. Human Rights Watch, which is particularly restrictive in what it calls genocide, says it believes Iraq is not headed in that direction. Joost Hiltermann, who covers Iraq for the International Crisis Group, says that the biggest impediment to full-blown genocide is the fact that there are divisions between...
...After 9/11, Bush became convinced that Saddam Hussein was seeking nuclear weapons and represented a mortal threat to the West. He also came to believe that ousting Saddam would turn Iraq into a democracy that would become the model for the rest of the Arab world. Saddam turned out not to have nuclear weapons, and Iraq turned out to be more prone to civil war than democracy. It runs the risk of becoming a failed state from which terrorists run global operations, and/or breaking into ethnic mini-states that inspire secessionist trouble throughout the region...
...cellular carriers are far less enthusiastic. They see WiMax as a threat to the 3G cellular networks they have invested in so heavily. For now, many operators are settling for relatively small software upgrades that boost the speed of 3G networks at far less cost than building a new WiMax network. But some operators acknowledge that these enhancements will probably not be powerful enough to compete with mobile WiMax, and few seem to have a strategy beyond that. Sanjiv Ahuja, chief executive of Orange, the France Telecom?owned mobile carrier, says only that Orange "will be making decisions over...
...showier one? In a kingdom of billionaires, can a millionaire still land a passable trophy wife and buy her a spot on the board of a prestigious charity? Following in the footsteps of Depression-era photographers Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange,? we have sought to document a looming threat to the American way of life...
...impulses--to engage danger or run from it--are constantly at war and have left us with a well-tuned ability to evaluate the costs and payoffs of short-term risk, say Slovic and others. That, however, is not the kind we tend to face in contemporary society, where threats don't necessarily spring from behind a bush. They're much more likely to come to us in the form of rumors or news broadcasts or an escalation of the federal terrorism-threat level from orange to red. It's when the risk and the consequences of our response unfold...