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...Iraq and elsewhere in the Muslim world. The episode is still used in Jihadi propaganda, and is featured on Islamist websites. As for Cardona, his name can be referenced almost instantly on the Internet, along with news of his conviction and photos of him holding his large tan Belgian Malinois dog, as an Iraqi prisoner cowers against a concrete wall at Abu Ghraib prison. Dogs, which are considered unclean by many Muslims, have been used in U.S. detention facilities in both Iraq and Guantanamo to intimidate prisoners...
...camp" in Colorado with her daughter, son-in-law and three grandchildren. Appel invited the kids' other grandmother, who had lung cancer, to come along. The grandkids and their two grandmas--both "bald as billiards," Appel says--swam, fished, made s'mores together and rode a wagon drawn by Belgian draft horses...
...April, a German national was charged with sexually abusing young homeless boys in the coastal resort town of Sihanoukville; the man has strongly denied the charges. The same month, a Belgian national, who claims he is innocent, was arrested at his Phnom Penh guesthouse with a 13-year-old boy; according to Cambodian police, he had previously been jailed in Belgium on sex abuse charges...
...trying to set up stem-cell work," says Una Chen, head of the Stem Cell Therapy Program at the University of Giessen in Germany. "It's a boom." So, for example, scientists in Sweden are studying how stem cells might be used to treat Parkinson's disease. A Belgian team is investigating whether they might be used to treat diabetes. Some researchers expect therapies for these diseases will require embryonic stem cells because of their potential to grow into all types of tissue, but many labs work with both cell types. "We're not sure where the breakthroughs will come...
...blossomed into an international event. Since 2000, it has been jointly curated by two curators - one a Taiwan national, the other from overseas. This has led to the occasional spat, with the Taiwan curator at the 2005 event having what one official diplomatically described as "communication problems" with her Belgian curating partner. This year, Taipei will try the pairing of American curator Dan Cameron and artist-critic Junjieh Wang. Chinese video artist Cao Fei, who will produce a new work for the show, will be joined by Japanese painter-photographer Kazuna Taguchi and almost 40 other artists. BRISBANE: The Asia...