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British medical journal the Lancet made a dramatic late entry into the U.S. election fray, fast-tracking publication on its website of a study saying that about 100,000 "excess" Iraqi deaths have occurred since the war began in March 2003. In the first scientific study of the human cost of the war and occupation, the deaths were attributed to "invasion violence," mostly U.S.-coalition air strikes. Although the figure is well above previously published estimates (which have ranged up to 30,000) the researchers, led by Les Roberts of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health...
...epidemiology at the University of Oxford, and other experts have called the methodology sound. But Roberts' report comes with caveats: for example, the researchers noted that their "confidence interval" (a kind of statistical measuring stick), is quite wide, giving an estimated range of 8,000 to 194,000 excess deaths. That's one reason why Roberts and his research colleagues at Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad and Columbia University in New York City want an independent body such as the World Health Organization to examine their findings. "This is a very interesting and a very brave study," says John Sloboda...
...motion of the film. Even the highly anticipated surprise ending becomes an “Oh, okay” moment instead of a “Wow, no way, that’s his father?” one. The movie, then, becomes a woeful drudge of cinematic excess: it’s cool simply for the sake of being cool...
...blistering pace, sometimes as much as 5 lbs. a day. That also supports the idea of warm-bloodedness, which means baby T. rex had to have a way to retain body heat. As the dinosaur shot toward adulthood, however, it would have developed the opposite problem: shedding the excess heat pumped out by an active, 11,000-lb. body. Norell and Xu theorize that T. rex probably lost its feathers as it matured, just as growing elephants lose their body hair...
...movie, then, becomes a woeful drudge of cinematic excess: It’s cool for the sake of cool...