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...motivated. But that position became harder to defend in the face of claims by another French relief organization that most of the 103 children were neither orphans - nor even Sudanese for the most part. Those allegations were reinforced on Thursday when two U.N. agencies said they?d managed to confirm 91 of the children had at least one parent, and most came from Chad. French media reports, meanwhile, quoted residents of Chadian villages claiming they'd seen some of the 103 children lured from their homes into trucks by visiting white people promising candy...
...State on Foreign Affairs and Human Rights Rama Yade told the daily Le Parisien. Yade said she'd warned Zoe's Ark back in August of her concerns about its rumored adoption practices. And while Yade said French officials still don't have enough detail to be able to confirm or refute the charges of child trafficking, she suggested the NGO knew it was playing with fire. "You don't remove children from countries like Chad and Sudan that don't allow adoption," Yade said...
...assume anything. I need not rehash those sayings. Why tell when I can show? Turns out the name the reporter heard was “Kairos.” Kairos Shen happens to be the director of planning at the BRA. Unfortunately, it took editors two more weeks to confirm that Shen was, in fact, the speaker who was quoted. Until late last month the article appeared on the Crimson Web site with an odd correction, noting that Montañez was not at the meeting and did not say the things attributed to him. “This correction...
...fair, determining what constitutes torture is harder than you might think. The U.N. convention on torture, to which the U.S. is a signatory, says it is the infliction of severe mental or physical pain to obtain information. The Administration refuses to confirm specific interrogation techniques because it says opponents can train against them if they know what to expect. Extensive reporting, however, has shown that the U.S. has used techniques including raising and lowering temperatures in detainees' cells, withholding food, isolation, sleep deprivation with light or noise, forcing detainees into stress positions, head-slapping and water-boarding or simulated drowning...
...test—literally. A study conducted by researchers in the Departments of Anthropology at Harvard University, McMaster University, and Florida State University found that men with deep voices wield greater reproductive abilities. Translation? Dudes with lower voices might get more girls. FM set out to confirm this study, using a more familiar tribe. Fifteen female students listened to four equally handsome hunks try to get in their pants via a voice recording, and then attempted to match the boys’ pictures to their sultry tenors. 60 percent of the ladies matched the deepest voice to their personal pick...