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...You’ve spent a crazy amount of time with the president—seven hours over the course of four interviews. Has that coziness affected your ability to report with a critical...
...incommensurate with their proper place in understanding the modern world. That is not to say that religious notions are not important, but that they do not in any discernable way warrant this special treatment. Moreover, we are not necessarily comfortable with the type of worldview engendered by what may amount to no more than an ephemeral inflation of the supremacy of religious ideas. Instead, we believe the best way to understand religious ideas as part of a general education is in the context of a balanced treatment of competing forces. Several of the proposed categories—including...
...HSPH instructor in epidemiology, and Rimm, a HSPH associate professor, waded through research on the nutritive effects of fish. “There had been a lot of media attention...over the potential risks associated with contaminants that are found in fish, such that people were reducing the amount of fish they consumed,” said Rimm. According to Rim, the media inflated a study published two years ago highlighting harmful dioxins and PCBs in some fish. These chemicals do exist in fish, but account for only 9% of their total presence in the US food supply, according...
...Square from any other aesthetically chic but otherwise average eatery. The sandwich menu consists of the favorites with a gourmet flare—the curried chutney chicken salad on sourdough is strikingly tasty. In the same vein, the curried cauliflower soup was fantastically thick and had just the right amount of kick. The salads, though fresh, are mediocre, especially when the inexperienced and overwhelmed cooks forget the dressing. The green apple slaw is to be avoided at all costs by anyone who doesn’t like thin orange mayo. Highlights included the smoked salmon and goat cheese crepe...
...interrogation techniques, such as loud music and uncomfortable surroundings, especially when that could save U.S. lives. Julie J. Marlay Ottumwa, Iowa, U.S. Suskind asserted that the CIA's torture of "high-value" al-Qaeda operatives was wrong, using the tired old refrain that prisoners of war deserve a certain amount of dignity. But members of al-Qaeda target civilians in the most horrific ways. On 9/11, thousands of people in the World Trade Center, in the Pentagon and on Flight 93 were burned or crushed to death. The lucky ones died instantly, but there were surely many who suffered excruciating...