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...Vice Admiral Albert Church, noted that there is "a growing trend in the global war on terror" for military psychiatrists and psychologists to take part in interrogations. Now some mental-health professionals, even within the military, are growing concerned that colleagues who have helped interrogators may have broken the first rule of medical ethics: Do no harm. The American Psychological Association has organized a task force to investigate the work--much of which is shrouded in secrecy--and to craft ethical guidelines...
...male leadership. Her combat credentials were impeccable, however. As a flight surgeon on attack missions during the 1991 Gulf War, Cornum's Black Hawk 214 was shot down over southern Iraq. Five of the eight people aboard died, and she ended up in enemy captivity, with both arms broken and a bullet in her shoulder. During her eight days as a pow - one of only two female U.S. prisoners in that war - she was kissed and groped by an Iraqi soldier in the back of a truck. Cornum opted to keep quiet, but when she yelped in pain from...
Like a seasoned burglar, the virus circles a human cell looking for the easiest point of entry. Within seconds, it has broken into its target, located the nucleus and deftly slipped its genetic material into the cell's DNA. Now whenever the cell divides to copy itself, it also makes copies of the interloper. Soon those multiplying viruses have hijacked not just that cell but also all its neighbors, turning them into one massive virus factory. When the cells can no longer make the proteins they need to survive, they start...
After a professor asked the first question referring to the recent controversy, the university president exclaimed, “I’m glad the ice is now broken!” Laughter, and the sound of hands banging on tables, could be heard outside the meeting room...
...Saturday afternoon, with a trip to the NCAA tournament on the line, the pattern was broken...