The pellets were enriched to a level of around 4 per cent, well below the weapons-grade threshold of 80-90 per cent, and tests on the area revealed no radioactive contamination. German authorities were analysing the uranium to determine its origin.
Every year we gaze enviously at the lists of the richest people in world. Wondering what it would be like to have that sort of cash. But where would you sit on one of those lists? Here's your chance to find out.
His letter left out the names of two companies in which Berkshire is busy buying shares. Its holdings in those companies already have a market value of $1.9 billion, he said. "I could, of course, tell you their names. But then I would have to kill you."
It ended yesterday with federal authorities saying that they had exposed one of the most far-reaching insider trading schemes on Wall Street in decades, involving four investment banks and a web of hedge funds, day traders, lawyers and even a few supervisors, who upon discovering evidence of insider trading, blackmailed the traders to keep quiet about it.
A denial by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that the Japanese military had forced foreign women into sexual slavery during World War II is a clear sign that the government is preparing to reject a 1993 government statement that acknowledged the military's role in setting up brothels and forcing, either directly or indirectly, women into sexual slavery. That declaration also offered an apology to the women, euphemistically called "comfort women." "There is no evidence to prove there was coercion, nothing to support it," Abe told reporters Thursday. "So, in respect to this declaration, you have to keep in mind that things have changed greatly."
You have to be careful when you say "insurgency." You have to distinguish between the Shiite militias and the actual insurgency, which is the Sunni groups. Most of the Shiite militia activity is not directed at the U.S., it's directed at the Sunnis. The Sunni insurgency, meanwhile, is directed at everyone -- the U.S., the Iraqi government, the militias. The best way to divide it up is into three camps. You have Sunni nationalists, initially a large portion of the insurgency; the moderate Sunni Islamists, who use Islamic terminology and talk about establishing a government based on Sharia law; and you have the Salafists, like the group Al-Qaida in Iraq. To them, the fight is not about preserving the borders of Iraq, it's about revolution, about rebuilding something completely new on the basis of some kind of idyllic Muslim empire.
Ordningsmakt till Irak
USA och dess allierade lyckades effektivt störta Saddam Hussein och hans regim. Men mycket kritik har riktas mot att man inte satt in nog resurser efteråt. En del menar att man ställt till det så till den milda grad att man inte bort anfalla till att börja med. Vad vi vet idag är att det finns stora ordnings- och säkerhetsproblem i Irak, och att civilbefolkningen lider stort. Sverige och EU måste därför hjälpa till att axla bördan och hjälpa till med ordning och säkerhet i Irak.
Sverige måste ge all hjälp vi kan till Irak. Om säkerhetsläget förbättras bör vi i EU diskutera ännu större insatser.
There seems to be two key figures of brain expansion, and I think this is where the social intelligence hypothesis becomes very interesting. The first was around two million years ago, and at that time brains expanded perhaps about 50%. So we went from brain size of around 450cc to a brain size of around 1,000cc by 1.8 million years ago. What's interesting during that time is that we don't see dramatic changes in human behaviour as represented by the archaeological remains.... So archaeologists asked; why are brains getting larger and what is it providing? Brains wouldn't get larger just for any reasons because brain tissue is metabolically very expensive, so it's got to be serving a really important purpose. I think the social intelligence hypothesis suggests to us that that expansion of brain size around two million years ago was because people were living in larger groups, more complex groups, having to keep track of different people, a larger number of social relationships which we simply required a larger brain to do.
Hur skulle det se ut om varje minister med regeringschefen i täten diskuterade och bemötte och bedömde sina egna tillkortakommanden och felsteg i var sin av dem själva utgiven och kontrollerad tidning eller på en personlig hemsida?Tja, jag tycker att det vore mycket bra. En socialdemokrat, Margot Wallström har ju bloggat i många år.
In a 94-page prosecution document filed with the court's judges, Luis Moreno-Ocampo singled out Ahmad Muhammad Harun, now a state minister for humanitarian affairs who was state minister of the interior, along with Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman (also known as Ali Kushayb), a leader of the Darfur militia known as the Janjaweed, in a total of 51 crimes against humanity and war crimes. The filing marked the first accusations against named individuals as a prelude to a trial.
Click on any of these ads and Microsoft earns anywhere from a few cents to a few dollars, thereby profiting from a typo of Lexus Financial's trademark. Pretty sneaky! If a domainer were to actually register such a typo domain and profit from it, wouldn't he run the immediate risk of losing the domain and facing expensive lawsuits? Case in point: The typo domain LexusFinancail.com (same as our example but without the dash) actually exists and is in the process of being taken away from its original registrant by Lexus. Lexus had brought a cybersquatting complaint before the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center under ICANN's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP).
A dynamically balancing robot is really something to see. You can't turn away from it. It's so shockingly anthropomorphic. Because it walks like you do, you sense what it's feeling. But of course it wasn't (just) for entertainment that Trevor built this thing. Any robot for use in real world situations has to balance dynamically, because you can't predict what surface it would have to walk on.
Figures compiled by The Associated Press from police reports show that the number of bullet-riddled bodies found in the streets this month totaled 628 as of Monday night. That was down from the 1,079 in January and 1,379 in December. Such killings have generally been attributed to sectarian death squads - including Shiite militiamen, Sunni insurgents or rogue elements within the mostly Shiite army and police.
An AP police official said that they interrogated and counselled the victims. “Then on the plea that women cannot be kept in a police station overnight, the local police sent the minor girls back to the brothels. They assured us that they would be back in the morning.” But by morning, all the girls had been spirited away.
Beilock and Carr speculate that people with larger working memories grow to rely on working memory more for problem-solving. When the availability of working memory is decreased by an anxiety-producing situation, then their problem-solving ability also declines. So working memory is indeed tied to performance under stress, but in exactly the opposite way you might expect.
The Iraqi cabinet approved a draft of a law Monday that would set guidelines for countrywide distribution of oil revenues and foreign investment in the immense oil industry. The endorsement was a major agreement of the country's ethnic and sectarian political blocs on one of Iraq's most divisive issues.
In Switzerland, it doesn’t take much to be in a Gucci ad campaign. You photograph yourself naked, add a perfume bottle and the Gucci logo, send it to a weekly paper, and have them bill Gucci directly for the $50,000.
During the study period, there were three clinical relapses of MS in the infected group and 56 relapses in the uninfected group.
Human Rights Watch counted more than 6,000 violent incidents over the past three years. It said that more than 60 teachers and 10 students had been killed and 110 schools — the most visible signs of central government authority in many places — had been set ablaze.Jag har en stark känsla av att islamisterna i denna region är tränade och indoktrinerade utifrån.
A new policy of conciliation pursued by Thailand's junta since it took power in a coup five months ago has been met by increased violence, including a barrage of 28 coordinated bombings in the south that killed or injured about 60 people a week ago. "The momentum of violence is now beyond the control of government policy," said Srisompob Jitpiromsri, a political scientist at Prince of Songkhla University here. "The separatists can pick and choose the time and place of the violence without any effective resistance," he said. "They have the upper hand."Läs mer: Muslim insurgency stokes fear in southern Thailand - International Herald Tribune
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The two religions had coexisted through the years, although often in separate villages. Observers say this mutual tolerance is breaking down and there are fears of a sectarian conflict that could flare out of control.
"Buddhist monks have been hacked to death, clubbed to death, bombed and burned to death," said Sunai Phasuk, a political analyst with the Human Rights Watch monitoring group. "This has never happened before. This is a new aspect of violence in the south."