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In order to gather intelligence about terrorist plots, members of Congressional intelligence committees have called for allowing the Central Intelligence Agency to hire agents who have committed human rights violations. The policy against hiring such agents was issued in the mid-1990s, after a Guatemalan Army officer who killed an...
He had just completed a paper on juvenile obesity, titled “A Call to Action,” before his ill-fated plane ride. He was also in the midst of a two-year fellowship awarded to him by the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine.
Person of the Week LETTING BYGONES BE, YOU KNOW ... The generals are in exile or jail; Maggie is on the lecture circuit. It's been two decades since Argentina's junta launched its ill-fated grab for the Falkland Islands. Last week Tony Blair made the first visit to Argentina...
DIED. JIA LANPO, 92, Chinese archaeologist who directed the Peking Man excavation; in Beijing. Over six decades, Jia helped unearth a record 45 Homo erectus fossils from the Zhoukoudian site near Beijing. He discovered the first Chinese hominid fossils dating from the Pleistocene era that began 1.8 million years ago...
What is Asia to do? As Taiwan's ill-fated committee showed, there aren't a lot of ideas out there. Taiwan has let the value of its currency slip, while the Thai baht and the Philippine peso are trading at six-month lows against the greenback. This makes their...