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These scientists are the first to admit that they are treating a dizzyingly complex organ--the human brain--with not much more than educated guesswork. But when you hear the gratitude in Martha's voice as she talks about what it's like to get her life back after so many years of deep depression, it seems a risk worth taking. --With reporting by Alice Park/ New York...
...Penal Reform International. "Quite the contrary, actually." Another flaw, say critics, is the reliance on confessions. In many cases, the perpetrators are the only living witnesses to their crimes. The promise of a lighter sentence could be an incentive to implicate others, sometimes falsely. And many of the accused admit only to the bare minimum, and incriminate only accomplices who are dead or have fled the country. "I've never heard anybody confessing to more than one murder," says Gabriel Gabiro, a reporter for the Hirondelle news agency, which specializes in human-rights issues. "You'd think nobody in Rwanda...
...authority over the blogs’ content was briefly tested in 2003 by Derek A. Slater ’05, who posted internal memos from Diebold Election Systems, an electronic voting machine manufacturer, on his Harvard-hosted weblog. The memos, e-mails in which the company appeared to admit flaws in its voting machines, used across the country, had already been revealed on several other bloggers’ sites. Slater copied some of these memos onto his site, now titled “A Copyfighter’s Musings,” making him one of the bloggers Diebold complained...
While Peritz and Zahr admit that they find it intimidating to work in a semi-professional rather than in a student-based company, both students praise LHO for providing valuable learning experience...
...House Republicans admit that part of the problem in selling private accounts has been that many of their members don't exactly understand the details of Social Security. "We have to educate our own members and we haven't completely done that," says House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. With a two-week recess sending them back to their districts starting on March 21, House leaders are trying to make sure members fare better than they did a few weeks ago when many endured tough questioning in Social Security town hall meetings. Rather than holding town halls, many Republican members will...