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Rae Armantrout, from "New Intelligence"

US: New intelligence underscores Russian responsibility for downed plane By Justin Sink - 07-22-14 17:59 PM EDT The United States accused Russia on Monday of creating the conditions for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and said the Kremlin was continuing to send weapons and vehicles to militants in Ukraine. The Obama administration offered new intelligence indicating the Malaysian jetliner was likely shot down by a SA-11 surface-to-air missile that came from territory in Ukraine held by Russian-backed militants fighting Kiev’s U.S.-backed government. The new intelligence did not include evidence of direct Russian involvement, and officials have concluded that the pro-Russian separatists most likely shot down the plane by mistake. But the overall message from the administration was that Russia was at least partly to blame for the incident that left 298 people dead, and that it should be punished. Russia “bears responsibility for the support they provided to these separatists… and a general unstable environment they created in Ukraine,” deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said during an appearance on CNN. He also said Russia has continued to provide help from the militants since the plane was shot down. “There has been a steady flow of heavy weapons across the border from Russia,” Rhodes said. Separately, CNN reported that intelligence indicates that as many as 20 weapons systems were dispatched from Russia to Ukraine on Tuesday, even as leaders in Europe met to discuss additional sanctions over Russia's support. Rhodes indicated the separatists would not likely be able to operate the surface-to-air missile system without government support. Training on the system "tends to take" multiple days, and satellite evidence suggests that the Russian military has established a training camp just across the border from Ukraine. The officials said their information was based on intercepts, satellite photos, and social media posts by separatist leaders. They said some of that information had been authenticated by U.S. experts. The assessment largely confirms early reports that rebel leaders believed they had shot down a Ukrainian military cargo plane, only to discover it was actually a commercial jet. Separatist commander Igor Strelkov reportedly bragged about shooting down an aircraft on the social media website Vkontakte before deleting the post. “In the district of Torez an An-26 was just shot down,” he reportedly wrote in the post. “It crashed somewhere near the Progress mine. We warned them not to fly in our skies.” The revelations came as the United States is attempting to rally support for stronger sanctions against Russian in the aftermath of the jetliner crash. White House press secretary Josh Earnest said the evidence would be “more effective in drawing a more conclusive case” about what had happened with the crash. “We certainly would welcome additional steps from the international community, principally our allies in Western Europe, that would impose additional economic costs in Russia,” Earnest said. “We, for rather obvious reasons, think that those additional costs are justified.”

Rae Armantrout, from "New Intelligence," Poetry (January 2011)

Steve Hamm, co-author of Smart Machines with IBM Research director John Kelly, discusses the book and the new era of cognitive computing.

Dr. Mark Kris is among the top lung cancer specialists in the world. As chief of thoracic oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center in New York City, he has been diagnosing and treating patients for more than 30 years. But even he is overwhelmed by the massive amount of information that goes into figuring out which drugs to give his patients -- and the relatively crude tools he has to decipher that data. "This is the standard for treatment today," he says, passing me a well-worn printout of the 2013 treatment guidelines in his office. We choose a cancer type. A paragraph of instructions says to pair two drugs from a list of 16. "Do the math," he says. It means more than 100 possible combinations. "How do you figure out which ones are the best?" 

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