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William J. Broad

Last September, when Iran’s
uranium enrichment plant buried inside a mountain near the holy city of
Qum was revealed, the episode cast light on a wider pattern: Over the
past decade, Iran has quietly hidden an increasingly large part of its
atomic complex in networks of tunnels and bunkers across the country.

In doing so, American government and private experts say, Iran has
achieved a double purpose. Not only has it shielded its infrastructure
from military attack in warrens of dense rock, but it has further
obscured the scale and nature of its notoriously opaque nuclear effort.
The discovery of the Qum plant only heightened fears about other
undeclared sites.

Now, with the passing of President Obama’s
year-end deadline for diplomatic progress, that cloak of invisibility
has emerged as something of a stealth weapon, complicating the West’s
military and geopolitical calculus.

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Jeffrey Heyman

Mention the name Infected Mushroom to a patron of dance clubs
featuring trance and electronic music, and you’ll get an enthusiastic
nod and grin. That’s because the fabled Israeli duo of Erez Eisen
(IZen) and Amit Duvedevani (Duvdev) who formed Infected Mushroom more
than a decade ago, are among the most celebrated practitioners in the
world of psychedelic trance music, better known by its nickname
psytrance.

In fact, the two Israelis are credited with helping to invent the
musical genre – characterized by hypnotic arrangements of synthetic
rhythms and complex layered melodies created by high tempo riffs. IZen
and Duvdev were among the countless Israelis who, upon completion of
their military service in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), journeyed to
the Goa region of India in the 1980s and ’90s where ‘Goa trance’ had
taken hold.