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...several directions at once, none of them encouraging, some of them infinitely sad, all of them frightening. The authorities have tried to give outsiders the appearance of business as usual. But there is no hiding the reality that, be there war soon or a few more months of hair-trigger peace, life for the Iraqi nation is changing irrevocably...
Doubt still obscures the affiliations of the man who actually pulled the trigger. But Marton's diligent research provides a convincing case against those who allowed the killers to go free and others who shared responsibility for covering up the truth...
...government must now feel certain of winning its case. But if it does, and Winnie is sentenced to prison or -- as is technically possible -- to death, that would no longer be just a complication. It could trigger enough anger to destroy the negotiations...
First scientists must eliminate other sources of radiation that may trigger false signals in the gallium. (To shield the experiment from cosmic rays, the detectors are installed in an underground tunnel, beneath a mile of rock.) About the only thing harder than proving that solar neutrinos passed through the gallium-filled tanks is proving that they didn...
When this seemingly innocuous phrase appeared in Wilson's 1975 book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, it set off alarm bells as surely as ant pheromones trigger the defense mechanisms of a threatened colony. Critics scrambled out of the corners of the academy to attack Wilson's ideas as dangerously deterministic. To suggest, as he did, that human actions were more hard-wired than generally believed threatened to upset the balance of nurture so carefully guarded by those who held that environment, not heredity, shaped behavior...