A small stockpile of spent nuclear fuel destined for disposal in Russia remained behind in a lightly guarded research center, apparently because of a fit of pique by Libya's mercurial leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
In August, some 100 pounds of bomb-grade uranium, enough for two or three bombs, was whisked out of a poorly guarded research institute in Belgrade and sent to a secure facility in Russia.
But their larger goal was as we characterized it: given that "academia-industry collaborations can benefit society," they proposed "voluntary measures that guard against research bias and foster transparency and accountability" (Brockway and Furcht 2006).
His colleagues jealously guarded their research, because everyone was competing for funding.
WORK on Mr. Potato Head started last year in a heavily guarded Disney research plant a few miles from the company's headquarters in Burbank, Calif.
Their scenario: a terrorist network steals highly enriched uranium (HEU) of the sort used in often poorly guarded civilian research reactors and then detonates a bomb.In this section That not-winning feeling Not Bad, but not quite Good Still the stuff of nightmares Justice delayed The church's tin ears Instant pleasure, instant ageing Senator, can you spare a dime?
Although pharmaceutical companies typically guard their early research, the scientists at NovoBiotic decided to announce their progress with a paper in Nature, hoping to generate interest and investment.
After the Iraq war, the revolutionary guard carried out research into the Iraq experience and one lesson they drew was that the biggest mistake Saddam Hussein made was in trying to defend himself inside Iraqi territory.
The report is based on testimony from North Korean defectors, including a former prison guard, and scholarly research, videos and transcripts.
The allegations in the Grubman case suggest you can go only so far in guarding against tainted research by erecting a wall between analysts and investment bankers.
While two key big players on the team were scheduled to undergo minor surgery today -- Kenyon Martin (right wrist) and Aaron Williams (arthroscopic surgery on both knees) -- the Nets will continue to research guards for the draft on Wednesday.
