Kay, Blix question scientists' detention
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The former director of the Iraqi war crimes tribunal said that interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has taken over the court and could rush forward with "show trials" of Saddam Hussein and other former Iraqi ...
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Some critics question proposed federal spending hikes for nuclear research.
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Defining limits on 'alternative' interrogation methods is major concern of key US lawmakers.
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A new report released by an American Physical Society (APS) Special Committee on NASA Funding for Astrophysics has questioned the space agency's Moon, Mars and Beyond initiative. The APS assessment warns that t  he cost of overcoming technological challenges to make real the plan could far exceed budgetary projections and that numerous&nbsp;approved science programs could be jeopardized.
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INDIANAPOLIS &#151; Scholars and critics worldwide are demanding that the U.S. government explain why it revoked the work visa of a Muslim scholar hired at the University of Notre Dame, saying the action threatens academic freedoms.
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By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington and Frances Williams in Geneva. The International Committee of the Red Cross has accused the US of using psychological and physical pressure to interrogate prisoners at
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The Bush administration is clamping down on scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey, the latest agency subjected to controls on research that might go against official policy.
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Chinese authorities briefly detained at  least three liberal intellectuals, sources close to the three  said on Tuesday, as part of an intensified crackdown on  government critics.
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New York, December 14, 2004âTwo prominent writers and defenders of imprisoned journalists in China were taken from their homes yesterday, Monday, December 13, and interrogated about articles they had written for overseas Internet sites.
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An Iranian-American detained in Iran said on state television on Thursday she had concluded that a network of research centers and universities she had helped create had aims which would weaken the Iranian government.
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The state's top judge yesterday characterized the campaign to stop construction of a high-security research laboratory in Boston's South End as a not-in-my-backyard squabble, a potentially telling assessment in a high-stakes legal case.
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Police in Western Australia have questioned four doctors and seized computers in raids connected with last week&#39;s car bomb attacks in Britain, authorities said Friday.
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China has detained two prominent intellectuals in what appears to be a renewed crackdown on dissent by authorities, family members and sources said.
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The detentions were the latest in a string of arrests and official harassment of journalists, writers and scholars.
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Kevin Rose, Tariq Krim and Garrett Camp were questioned this week by MIT's Technology Review publisher about the future of Web 2.0 social networking and news aggregation sites and how they expect to make money.
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The panel is examining claims that GlaxoSmithKline tried to suppress a doctorâs criticism of its drug Avandia.
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For weeks now, the talk in Kyrgyz opposition circles has been dominated by questions about the disappearance of Tursunbek Akunov, a well-known human rights defender who is the head of a relatively hardline but ...