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Four wonderful years with FR. Tomorrow. Often chided, regularly reprimanded. Never banned. Happy to be a part of this wonderful place. Let's fulfill the upcoming FReepathon in record time. This year is crucial, as you all well know.

Iran four years from atomic bomb, say experts By David Blair, Diplomatic Correspondent Last Updated: 3:35am BST 24/04/2007 Iran's nuclear programme is facing such severe technical difficulties that it could take four years to produce enough weapons-grade uranium for one bomb and eight years to deploy an operational nuclear weapon, experts say. Students hold placards supporting Iran's nuclear right President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's announcement on April 9 that uranium enrichment on an "industrial scale" had begun was "misleading" and the time-scale for success is likely to be longer than early estimates suggested. "It's very difficult to enrich uranium," said Norman Dombey,...

As Air Force One made its final approach to Andrews Air Force Base on Tuesday afternoon, White House senior adviser Karl Rove juggled a telephone, a pen and a piece of paper, anxiously copying down the first wave of exit polls that showed President Bush trailing John F. Kerry. "I saw this look on his face and then the phone died," said White House communications director Dan Bartlett. "He said, 'Not good.' " It was, Bartlett added, "like a punch in the gut." At that point, years of planning and preparation appeared in doubt. Skeptics in the Democratic and Republican...

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<p>Wednesday was an anniversary of sorts, albeit one that few recalled and even fewer wanted to remember.</p> <p>For the record, the Nasdaq stock index hit its all-time high on March 10, 2000, reflecting nearly six years of sizzling growth in the high-technology sector of the economy, driven by huge amounts of speculative investment, before a steep plunge that extinguished tens of billions of dollars in paper wealth.</p>