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...More than 200 million people take Tylenol in the U.S. each year, and about 200 a year die from liver failure when they accidentally take too much. What the FDA proposed is to require manufacturers of acetaminophen-containing over-the-counter drugs to prominently note the presence of the compound, and warn people of the danger of liver toxicity when acetaminophen is taken in excees of recommended doses...
...Ahmadinejad's biggest problem down the road may be the desire of Iran's political establishment to prove his 2005 election a fluke. Ahmadinejad's moves to shut them out of power - even kicking Khatami out of a courtesy office within the presidential compound - have made conservatives and reformists alike determined to get their revenge. One senior conservative leader, who did not want to be identified, even predicted in a TIME interview that the Iranian parliament would oust Ahmadinejad before the end of his term in 2009. "Most of the decision makers and the elite are against him," he said...
...opposing the Shah's regime. But it was no less opposed to the Islamist regime that arrived with Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, which executed thousands of the group's supporters. By the mid-1980s, the group had cozied up to Saddam Hussein, who provided them with funds and a compound, Camp Ashraf, north of Baghdad. The U.S. government has accused the group of helping Saddam brutally put down a Kurdish rebellion in the early 1990s, and of launching numerous attacks inside Iran...
...groups suspected of carrying out most of the executions in the area, Hashim "plays both sides." Grim certainly doesn't trust Hashim and suspects him, at the very least, of giving ammunition to Shi'ite gunmen and sometimes even letting them sleep in the same Iraqi police compound where U.S. troops meet with Hashim during...
ELLIS ISLAND STEPHEN WILKES Sixteen years ago, the north side of Ellis Island, the famed New York entry point for generations of immigrants, was magnificently renovated. But the hospital compound on the south side, where many arrivals were held in quarantine, was left to decay. For five years, Wilkes roamed the disintegrating buildings, with their cracked plaster and peeling paint, to make pictures of their gorgeous decrepitude. (Congress has since allocated money to preserve them.) Decline has never looked more haunting...