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...role most psychologists and psychiatrists play in these interrogations may be relatively benign. One military psychologist described for TIME the help he gave intelligence officers in Afghanistan in getting an unruly Taliban prisoner to cooperate--coaxing information from the prisoner by starting "very gently" with innocuous questions about his family history, until the prisoner "talked and talked...
...complexities of Asia cannot be captured by the ideological U.S. belief that only the rising tide of democracy can save the world. Americans believe that the recent election in Baghdad and demonstrations in Beirut are natural, benign extensions of the democratic tide that washed Georgia and Ukraine before reaching the Middle East. But where Americans see rising tides, others see the emergence of new rivers of history. Some may lead to happy ends, some...
...their economics and politics, but will welcome into the international system those who have their own sense of tradition, history, and the natural order of the world, even if this is very different from that of the U.S. The danger is that Americans will be mental prisoners of their benign intentions, convinced of the innate superiority of their own institutions and beliefs, and unable to see that their own dominance is as likely to breed resentment as admiration. It is time that the U.S. became more aware of this risk...
Other bug-based therapies for cancer take advantage of the body's natural response to invaders. To this end, scientists at the Texas Medical Center have enlisted the aid of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). More than 95% of the population is infected with EBV, a usually benign microbe that sequesters itself in the immune system's B cells. Like any other cellbound virus, EBV doesn't remain dormant for long, dividing furiously and emerging in runaway viral mobs. But unlike most other viruses, EBV is quickly eliminated by the vigilant immune system's killer T cells...
...dynamo from such hard-hitting films as the Die Hard trilogy and Armageddon turns into an emotional wreck in Hostage. The former John McClane is here an ex-negotiator, harrowed by a past tragedy, forced back into the business of life and death when a benign car theft in his sleepy town goes wrong...