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...Some of the medical involvement in torture defies belief. In one of the few actual logs we have of a high-level interrogation, that of Mohammed al-Qhatani (first reported in TIME), doctors were present during the long process of constant sleep deprivation over 55 days, and they induced hypothermia and the use of threatening dogs, among other techniques. According to Miles, Medics had to administer three bags of medical saline to Qhatani - while he was strapped to a chair - and aggressively treat him for hypothermia in the hospital. They then returned him to his interrogators. Elsewhere in Guant?namo...
...hundreds of thousands of women's lives with the vacuous assertion that it would lead to promiscuity is inexcusable." At a time when government data shows 70% of girls having had intercourse by the time they're 18, the need for a vaccine seemed self-evident. "It was our belief that (conservatives) were trying to make their opposition clear to the FDA, which has been politically responsive during the Bush Administration to these conservative groups," says Gandy, "and that gave us tremendous concern that their influence would translate into non-approval of this vaccine...
...mused about doing something splashy like scrapping the uniform (he decided against it). But is what's good for Eton good for Britain? For all its recent economic and cultural success, Britain has not left all the old wounds of class division behind it. Contrary to popular belief, social mobility in the country has stalled. The absolute number of white-collar jobs is rising, but research shows that the chance of getting from the bottom 10% of society to the top 10% is dropping. A middle-class child is 15 times more likely to become a middle-class adult than...
...skirt pretending to be pregnant. The teen-aged brother has embraced strict religious orthodoxy and keeps interrupting the smooth flow of social events on this Sabbath evening by taping over the light switches and hiding everyone's cell phones; there is to be no electronic interference with true belief. Grandpa is a blind veteran of various Israeli wars and keeps a loaded gun handy in case the enemy decides to storm their apartment. Mom (the divine Norma Aleandro) desperately pretends that everyone is normal, and Dad is simply AWOL...
Roger Maris, Jr., remains adamant in his belief that his father is baseball's rightful home run king. The former Yankee slugger's record of 61 homers in 1961 stood for 37 years, until both Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa passed it (with 70 and 66 homers respectively) in the summer of 1998, followed by Barry Bonds' record-setting 2001 season of 73 home runs. But all three have been dogged by suspicion of using steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs, and there have been calls to restore Maris as the title holder...