The arms deal.
WHEN CONGRESS RETURNS from its month-long vacation in September, President Bush will ask members to agree to a package of more than $63 billion in military aid and weapons to our "allies" in the Middle East. Why such generosity? Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice explains that the money will...

The Cuban Missile Crisis and the threat of nuclear war; lessons from history.
9781847060266 The Cuban Missile Crisis and the threat of nuclear war; lessons from history. Scott, Len. Continuum Publishing Group 2007 222 pages $49.95 Hardcover E841 Scott (international politics, U. of Wales,...

Peace Studies student protests UO role in weapons.
Byline: The Register-Guard Brian Bogart, a Peace Studies major at the University of Oregon, marked the first day of classes on Monday by launching a protest against the war in Iraq. He plans to speak out against the war and what he said were the university's ties...

Managing the global problems created by the conventional arms trade: an assessment of the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms.
One of the first global security problems to emerge in the post-Cold War period was the excessive and destabilizing accumulation of conventional weapons. The only truly global instrument to emerge to cope with this was the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms. This article is an assessment of how...

Short attention span: as the fourth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, the U.S. news media--with some stellar exceptions--are not distinguishing themselves with their coverage of homeland security.
The intruder scouted the target and decided exactly where to strike. He headed to the site, slipping swiftly through unguarded gates toward a bright orange windsock, a signal that deadly chemicals were stockpiled nearby. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Once inside the compound, he...

Northern Trust Offers Institutional Large Cap Strategy Tracking the Domini 400 Social(SM) Index.
Quantitative Process Screens for Positive and Negative Social Investment Factors CHICAGO, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Northern Trust announced today that its asset management arm, Northern Trust Global Investments (NTGI), will offer a Socially Responsible Large Cap Equity Index Strategy created to help institutional investors meet risk and...

Ending the nightmare.
Darwin's Nightmare Written and Directed by Hubert Sauper (2004, Documentary, France/Austria/Belgium); 107min. Now screening on the Sundance Channel. U.S. DVD release pending (www.darwinsnightmare.com). DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE is an Oscar nominated documentary that examines life and death issues in Tanzania. The movie's story line can...

Time trip.
As long as athletes have competed, there have been performance-enhancing drugs. Ancient Greek Olympians drank mushroom-and-plant concoctions for extra oomph. Roman gladiators guzzled herbal stimulants before competing at the Circus Maximus. Chariot horses got some of their get-up-and-go from similar mixtures. Ancient Egyptians chewed the hooves of Abyssinian donkeys,...

Parts of 123 pact objectionable: AEC ex-chief.
Byline: Srinivas Laxman MUMBAI: Criticising the Indo-US nuke deal, former Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) chairman P K Iyengar said that the President and the PM should not sign the deal because it contains too many details which they may not understand. "Some PMs cannot even...

New Fort Detrick "biodefense" laboratory may reflect a Bush germ warfare effort.
Although no foreign power has threatened a bioterror attack against America, since 9/11 the Bush administration has allocated a stunning $43 billion to "defend" against one. Critics are now saying, however, Bush's newest "biodefense" initiative is both offensive and illegal. The latest development, according to the Associated...