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The article reports on the U.S. government's decision to award $12 million to the University of Maryland, College Park, to set up a center for behavioral and social research on terrorism. The center is the fourth in a network of centers of excellence devoted to various aspects of terrorism funded by the Department of Homeland Security. The center will study how terrorist groups form and recruit, what motivates them and how they pick their targets. It will pull together teams from around the country to investigate areas that have received little attention in the past.