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...today that they should switch from their standard Army green camis to tan, intended to make infantrymen like Beets invisible in the sand, except for the blindingly bright American flag they have to sew on the right shoulder when they're about to deploy overseas so that allies can distinguish U.S. troops at close quarters...
...where he was abducted. The cabbie testified that he saw Saeed sitting in the car that drove the reporter away. But during the trial, Saeed's defense lawyers argued that in the 7 p.m. darkness and from 15 meters away, it would have been impossible for the cabbie to distinguish one bearded Pakistani from another. "The taxi driver also happens to be a police constable," says Saeed's lawyer Abdul Waheed Katpar, who is appealing his defendant's conviction next month in the Supreme Court. "We think his superiors leaned on him to tailor his testimony." Police deny this allegation...
...other end of the spectrum, Asians are the most integrated of all minority groups and enjoy the least amount of linguistic separation. The report did not distinguish between different Asian nationalities, but it found that as a whole the college graduation rate for Asians is nearly double the national average—and four times greater than the college graduation rate for blacks...
...flat, two-dimensional X-ray picture, CT scanners produce a series of successive images. Taken as the patient, lying down, moves through a scanning ring, these "slices" can be combined to create the illusion of depth. The resulting pictures of bone and soft tissue can help doctors distinguish between patients with a psychiatric disorder and those with head trauma (which can trigger similar symptoms). CTs have been particularly useful in identifying schizophrenia patients. In the 1970s researchers uncovered the first distinguishing abnormality in these patients' brains: the ventricles (fluid-filled open spaces), circled in yellow, are significantly larger in those...
Arguments that are “hate speech” need no such label to be considered bad arguments. As members of an intellectual community, each of us already has the capacity to identify bigotry where it exists and to distinguish valid argument from hate. We don’t need outspoken proponents of “tolerance” to do it for us. What we do need is dissent from students like Pappin, who challenge us all to examine the limits of our inclusiveness and to question the bitter hypocrisy of whom we choose to tolerate and whom...