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Eugene and Stanley are calming each other after a too-dose-to-home radio sketch has alienated their father. Eugene ashamedly admits he meant the parallels, adding, "There's part of my head that makes me this nice, likable, funny kid. And there's the other part, the part that writes, that's an angry, hostile, real son of a bitch." Stanley retorts, "Well, you'd better make friends with the son of a bitch because he's the one who's going to make you a big living...
...Savvy web users, of course, know that public wikis are never trusted for their authenticity for the simple reason that anyone can post or edit them. Instead they're viewed as a first step in the research process. And if Wikileaks is used with a healthy dose of skepticism, it could become as important a journalistic tool as the Freedom of Information Act. "For journalists, I think [Wikileaks] is actually a good thing," says Kelly McBride, ethics group leader at the Poynter Institue. "This could be a place where they could go to seek documentation of something they already have...
...case: Ashley, now 9, is a severely brain-damaged girl whose parents feared that as she got bigger, it would be much harder to care for her the way they wanted to. So they set out to keep her small. Through high-dose estrogen treatment over the past two years, her growth plates were closed and her prospective height reduced about 13 in., to 4 ft. 5 in. "Ashley's smaller and lighter size," her parents write on the blog defending their decision, "makes it more possible to include her in the typical family life and activities that provide...
...military may have officially signed off on President Bush's new Iraq plan, but there is still a healthy dose of skepticism about the so-called surge strategy. Many officers have taken to using the acronym "JEL" to characterize the number of troops dedicated to the new effort. It stands for ?Just Enough to Lose." "Look, is this a national effort, or more of the same mid-level one?" asked a senior officer who has served in Iraq. "What I heard last night is more of the same. We either needed to go big - and that means 100,000 soldiers...
...Doctors watching it all from the sidelines note that there are serious medical questions at stake. For one thing, there is no way to know the effect of high-dose estrogen on such a young girl. "Before moving forward wholesale, we need to study it carefully," says Dr. Jeffrey Brosco, an associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Miami, who wrote a dissent in the journal where the case was published. "Right now it is truly an experimental treatment." But he is sure there will be more interest: just last week a family he treats had to put their...