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President Bush is now in danger of the furor over the Abu Ghraib prison horrors engulfing U.S. strategy toward Iraq at the very moment he faces huge last-chance political and military decisions there...
...decision fueled widespread consternation. As the trial continues this week, that's only one of many explanations France will be seeking. Having tied up the system for years, the case is already raising the question of whether French justice is more arbitrary than blind. - By James Graff A Hidden Danger? BRITAIN New research published in the Journal of Pathology suggested that as many as 3,800 Britons could be unknowingly harboring variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease. The government estimates that 141 people have died from vCJD since the illness was identified...
...Yale in the 1960s, psychologist Stanley Milgram showed that psychologically healthy volunteers did not hesitate to administer what they thought were electric shocks to another human being when instructed to do so by a researcher. Two-thirds followed instructions and kept raising the voltage--right up to levels marked DANGER: SEVERE SHOCK and XXX. Milgram found that compliance was greatest when participants couldn't see the face of their subject (although they could hear an actor's fake screams) and when they took their instructions from an official-looking scientist in a white lab coat...
Meeks said yesterday he had become accustomed to danger during his tour of duty in Iraq...
...have a wedding party and people shoot off AK-47s in celebration,” Moulton said. “So people just have a different standard for danger...