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Could al-Qaeda's plot have been foiled if the U.S. had taken the fight to the terrorists in January 2001? Perhaps not. The thrust of the winter plan was to attack al-Qaeda outside the U.S. Yet by the beginning of that year, Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi, two Arabs who had been leaders of a terrorist cell in Hamburg, Germany, were already living in Florida, honing their skills in flight schools. Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar had been doing the same in Southern California. The hijackers maintained tight security, generally avoided cell phones, rented apartments under false...
...next step, Rauch says, is to scan groups of people who are likely to be thrust into dangerous situations--fire fighters, say, or police officers. Then it may be possible to determine if any changes in their brains are the result of traumatic situations or if the changes predate them. Either is plausible. The stress of surviving a building collapse, for example, could turn a normal amygdala into an overactive one. Or an already overactive amygdala may overwhelm the brain in the wake of a disaster...
...ultimate goal of the committee and the main thrust of their efforts, Hyman and Buckley said, is to bring together the science being done across the University...
...team counts on him in games we need to win,” said Walsh after the 2-1 victory thrust Harvard into the Ivy League Championships, “and he came through for us with a tremendous effort...
Necessity thus thrust Nyweide into the Crimson’s starring role on the season’s grandest stage. He promptly brought the house down...