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...cold blood." A U.S. government report of the incident that first appeared on TIME.com, says that Blackwater guards shot back only in response to small arms fire. The company has said its employees killed and wounded armed insurgents, not civilians. Yesterday, Iraq's Ministry of the Interior released an account of the incident that differed substantially from the U.S. report. The ministry said that Blackwater initiated the firefight, killing as many as 20 civilians...
...area. Another research tool, known as the Drug Abuse Warning Network, or DAWN, tracks the number of emergency-room visits and drug overdoses throughout the country. Using figures like these, officials determine where and how funding will be allocated throughout the country, Compton says. But these numbers fail to account for those drug dealers and users who have managed to avoid doctors and police...
...regents do not feel the same way.” The petition’s authors pointed to two controversial incidents of Summers’ tenure as Harvard president, including a 2005 speech in which Summers suggested that “issues of intrinsic aptitude” might partially account for the lack of females in the upper echelons of science and engineering fields. They also cited Summers’ dispute with former African American studies professor Cornel R. West ’74. West, who is black, left for Princeton after Summers reportedly asked him to focus more...
...Iraq last Monday. "One of Blackwater's helicopters went down yesterday - a hostile fire incident," the Ambassador said. "Fortunately no one was killed in that accident, but over 30 of our contract security Americans have been killed keeping the rest of us safe." A Blackwater official confirmed Crocker's account of the incident...
...Your article on NDEs was a sober yet uplifting account of these very important experiences. I have been concerned by lay portrayals that misuse neuroscience and give false scientific hope despite ample room for spirituality. You brought in highly divergent views and struck a reasoned balance between what science knows, what it might know and what it doesn't know - a difficult task indeed. Kevin R. Nelson, M.D., Professor of Neurology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky...