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The CIA Gets a Rare Public Victory
As the news of Osama bin Laden’s death moves from exhilarating novelty to accepted reality, one group in the U.S. government will emerge as key to the win: the Central Intelligence Agency
When Will Obama Give Up the Bin Laden Ghost Hunt?
In a talk at the Atlantic Council this week, CIA director-general Michael Hayden said Osama bin Laden is alive. I’ll take his word for it.
Education: Nature v. Nurture
Few years ago a psychologist named Harold Manville Skeels, a professor at University of Iowa, was assigned by the State to advise the State orphanage.
An Inside Look at the U.S.-Pakistan Feud Over Drones
For the past six weeks, Pakistan has echoed with ferocious opposition to the CIA’s covert drones program that targets al-Qaeda and Taliban militants hiding in the tribal areas along the Afghan border. Ever since Pakistan’s army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani issued a rare and fiercely worded condemnation of a March 17 drone strike, his criticism of the U.S.
Al-Qaeda In America: Disclosure: What Do You Tell People?
Battling terrorism on the home front could forever be tangled up in politics, but what if it weren’t?
Lab Report: Health, Science and Medicine
MENTAL HEALTH Pot and Schizophrenia: A Dangerous Mix A mind is a terrible thing to scramble.
Genetics: Are Your Genes To Blame?
Readers of the science pages could be forgiven for thinking that the conversation in the cartoon on the opposite page really took place. Study after study has shown that genes can affect behavior and mental life
Jordan’s Islamists Take the Reins of the Protests
After sitting out a three-month long wave of protests, Jordan’s Islamists have finally taken to the streets.
Behavior: Decision Theory: Guide to Choice-Making
TO beleaguered man, life is an uphill obstacle course. Between the cradle and the grave stretches an endless multitude of problems, every one of which cries out for decision