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...real journals puts them a cut above the usual in-house publicity stunt. But in some ways, they don't go very far. For one thing, they're much too small--just 13 subjects in one case and 10 in the other--to be considered definitive. And both claim to be double-blind--a good thing in a research study, since it means that neither the testers nor the subjects are told who's getting which drug (or in this case, which drink) at any given time. But if you have ever tasted Gatorade and Accelerade, you might wonder whether...
...Pentagon inquiries into Haditha were triggered by a TIME magazine story last spring, when it was discovered that several Iraqi civilians in Haditha had not been killed by an Improvised Explosive Device, as a Marine press release claimed, but instead had been killed by Marines. The dead, most of them killed in their homes, included women and children. Doubt has been cast on the Marines' claim that they were responding to what they believed to be an insurgent attack, and on whether any of the Iraqi dead were even armed...
...York Times story also said that there is no official record of an AK-47 rifle that the Marines claim was taken from one of the town residents killed that day. But Wuterich's lawyers say their client has a clear memory of what was done with that AK-47; he says it was put into the first Humvee in his convoy, along with a suitcase taken from one of the Iraqi houses, by another Marine (whom the lawyers will not name). The AK-47 and the suitcase were to be taken back to base, tagged...
...believing much of what he said. Myhan says he once told her, for instance, that he couldn?t go to the infirmary when he was sick because he could not afford insurance. Yet he tooled around in a Porsche. He would say he lived one place one day, and claim he lived elsewhere on the next. "I would not be surprised if his confession is just another one of his stories," says Myhan...
...Sure, Judge Taylor struck down the program, dealing a third judicial blow to the President's claim of expansive war powers. The opinion comes two months after the Supreme Court rejected the Administration's version of "due process lite" for detainees at Guantanamo Bay, and a month after a San Francisco judge allowed a lawsuit against AT&T for allegedly collaborating in the eavesdropping program...