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Human-rights advocates say the lesson from last week is that degrading or cruel treatment is never O.K., not even if thousands of lives are at stake. Says Kenneth Roth, head of Human Rights Watch and a former federal prosecutor: "Proponents of torture always cite the ticking-bomb scenario. The...
Patients lie down during the procedure, which lasts an hour and is performed once a day, five times a week, for seven weeks. (The cost is about $6,000, compared with as much as $60,000 for bypass surgery.) The pneumatic cuffs are timed to inflate in progression--starting with...
Better aim your grocery cart toward the fruit aisle. Studies in animals hint that berries are bursting with benefits. For one thing, they are chock-full of antioxidants, which help absorb some of the toxic molecules called free radicals that the body produces during metabolism. Cranberries may pack a one...
DIED. R.M. WILLIAMS, 95, iconic cattleman of the Australian bush whose leather-goods and clothing company became a global business empire; near Toowoomba, Queensland. Williams worked as a gold prospector and ranch hand before he began making elastic-sided boots in a shed in the 1930s. He became a multimillionaire...
“What I had in mind was much shorter than what actually emerged,” he says. “But…finishing is an elastic term.”