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...Three years ago, the commander's sentiment seemed overly bleak. For soldiers hunkered down on an isolated base that regularly took fire, giving candy to children seemed like a pretty innocent way to lift spirits. These days, however, his warning seems prescient. Just last week, soldiers inspecting a project outside of Jalalabad stopped to toss candies to kids who were swarming around their humvees. Minutes later, an explosion tore through the crowd, killing five Afghans, including two boys, and wounding nine U.S. soldiers. The crowd quickly turned on the Americans, blaming them for the deaths. (See pictures...
...state security. He had died in a hospital shortly after reportedly being shot in the chest during Sunday's riots. An account of the funeral, said to have been written by a member of Iran's security forces with sympathies toward the opposition, is currently circulating. It describes a bleak ceremony, held just after dawn, with men and women from the Revolutionary Guards dressed in black mingling with family members. The undercover agents hissed the mourners to quiet down when the cries and wails grew too loud...
...governments amounts to outside interference in its internal affairs, there are signs that the rapidly modernizing country is curbing its use of the death penalty of its own accord. The reforms are modest, to be sure, but some observers see them as a rare bright spot amid an overall bleak trend for human rights in China. (Read "China's Harsh Warning to Political Dissidents...
...Just as Miami exile leaders were able to make Elián's case drag out for as long as possible (it might still be dragging out today if the feds hadn't finally taken the boy forcibly), the Rio relatives have turned Sean's case into a Brazilian Bleak House...
...than those provided - also by Lipsitch - to the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology last summer near the start of the pandemic. At the time, researchers had only patchy data on the number of people infected by, and seeking treatment for, the new flu. The initially bleak prediction of the impact of H1N1 - with up to 50% of the U.S. population becoming infected in the fall and winter of 2009, resulting in as many as 90,000 deaths - was based on modeling of previous pandemics. (See how not to get the H1N1...