Pakistan’s detention of five C.I.A. informants, including a Pakistani Army major, is the latest evidence of the fractured relationship between the United States and Pakistan.
Some presidential candidates are shifting from the hawkish consensus on national security that has dominated Republican foreign policy for the last decade.
Over the past two and a half years, thousands of workers, villagers and children have been found to be suffering from toxic levels of lead exposure, mostly caused by pollution from battery factories.
As NASA gets its space shuttles ready to be shipped out to museums, crews have been flooded with requests to squirrel away parts of the spacecraft for analysis.
Terms like “sunblock,” “waterproof” and “sweatproof” will be banned since they imply a false level of protection.
Interviews with people who know Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s accuser portray her as quiet and unassuming.
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