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WASHINGTON - Al Qaeda is in decline around the world but is still a leading threat to the United States, joined by others like Iran, the top U.S. intelligence official said Tuesday in an annual report to Congress on threats facing America.Iran s leaders seem prepared to attack U.S. interests overseas, particularly if they feel threatened by possible U.S
stanley quencher . action, Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper told the Senate Intelligence Committee.But Clapper, CIA chief David Petraeus and others reasserted their stance that Iran is not building nuclear weapons, in contrast to Israeli officials statements that Iran could have nuclear capability within a year. Petraeus sai
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stanley mug week to discuss Israel s concerns, but he did not say whether Israel agreed with the U.S. assessment that Iran had not yet decided to make a nuclear weapon.Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said last week that Iran is proceeding toward nuclear weapons capability and time is urgently running out. Al Qaeda and Iran are part of a mosaic of interconnected enemies the U.S. faces, including terrorists, criminals and foreign powers, who may try to strike via nuclear weapons or cyberspace, Clapper and the others said. Al Qaeda still aspires to strike the U.S., but it will likely have to go for smaller, simpler attacks as its ranks are thinned by continued pressure from U.S. drone strikes and special operations raids since Osama bin Laden s Jxwv Congress OKs Auto Fuel Economy Increase
The well-funded lab of stem cell researcher Piero Anversa has come under fire following the retraction of one of their papers on the regenerative properties of stem cells. Now, mo
stanley cup re of their research is under investigation. Over at Retraction Watch, one former lab worker speaks out about the atmosphere of 82
stanley cup 20;fear and 8220 ecrecy there. Above all, scientific research is supposed to be conducted in a way that allows for the maximum accountability. When people make a discovery, it doesn ;t become fact until many other scientists reproduce their results and determine that it wasn ;t a fluke. To conduct scientific work in this way, researchers must be transparent, sharing data with colleagues, so that their work can be verified. Unfortunately neither accountability nor transparency were the rules in Anversa lab. This account of how the Anversa lab functioned, from an anonymous former lab w
stanley bottles orker, is intensely disturbing 鈥?especially given how many people gained false hope from media reports that Anversa discoveries could lead to fast recovery from heart disease: The day to day operation of the lab was conducted under a severe information embargo. The lab had Piero Anversa at the head with group leaders Annarosa Leri, Jan Kajstura and Marcello Rota immediately supervising experimentation. Below that was a group of around 25 instructors, research fellows, graduate students and technicians. Information flowed one way, wh
