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...Scientists like Heather Chapman, program leader at the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality & Treatment, would love to conquer the "yuck" factor that dominates the recycled-drinking-water debate worldwide. She insists the feared health risks of chemicals in water-from fertility problems to cancers-have been overstated and the effectiveness of modern processes for removing contaminants undersold. "The treatment processes are very, very efficient," Chapman says. "Nothing is completely risk free, but the risk of these things is so tiny compared with the risks that we are exposed to daily, like getting in a car." She says scientists need...
...Kilo Company apparently snap? Perhaps because of the stress of fighting a violent and unpopular war--or because their commanders failed them. Military psychiatrists who have studied what makes a soldier's moral compass go haywire in battle look first for a weak chain of command. That was a factor in the March 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam, when U.S. soldiers, including members of an Army platoon led by Lieut. William Calley, killed some 500 Vietnamese. Says a retired Army Green Beret colonel who fought in Vietnam: "Somebody has failed to say, 'No, that's not right...
...fraud conviction based on the fine points of the kind of jury instructions given by Judge Simeon Lake. "A 'willful blindness' instruction is a very good ground [for appeal]," says Houston defense attorney Joel Androphy. Willful blindness, which Judge Lake specifically cited in the jury instructions as a valid factor in finding guilt, means a jury can find a corporate executive guilty if he personally did not cook the books, but was suspicious or knowledgeable of the goings on in his company and made no attempt to find out about or correct...
Instead, the biggest risk factor for DVT seems to be how much time you spend in an airplane seat. An earlier study of more than 135 million passengers found that those who traveled more than 3,100 miles in one trip were 150 times as likely to develop clots. That can happen on the ground too. David Bloom, an NBC war correspondent, died in 2003 after developing DVT while reporting in Iraq. It was believed to have been caused by dehydration (which thickens the blood) and the cramped condition of the armored vehicle he traveled...
Research indicates that the vast majority of people who develop DVT, on or off a plane, have at least one other risk factor, such as cancer, circulation problems, a family history of thrombosis or a bad knee or hip. Pregnant women or women on birth control pills are also at higher risk...