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...Penguin Lost, Viktor returns home when the heat is off and gets involved in high-level Kiev politics. He learns that his penguin has ended up in Chechnya, and heads to the volatile region to save his feathered friend. There, he ends up slaving for a Chechen boss in a makeshift crematorium that is the region's only neutral zone because it accommodates the dead from both sides of the conflict. Although he eventually returns home with Misha, Viktor and the penguin soon have to flee from a Kiev mafia boss turned parliamentarian. Their escape route involves a yacht trip...
...Some of the medical involvement in torture defies belief. In one of the few actual logs we have of a high-level interrogation, that of Mohammed al-Qhatani (first reported in TIME), doctors were present during the long process of constant sleep deprivation over 55 days, and they induced hypothermia and the use of threatening dogs, among other techniques. According to Miles, Medics had to administer three bags of medical saline to Qhatani - while he was strapped to a chair - and aggressively treat him for hypothermia in the hospital. They then returned him to his interrogators. Elsewhere in Guant?namo...
...reaction to information about a different WMD threat: hydrogen cyanide gas. As in the rest of the book, he illuminates the constant interplay and occasional tension between the "invisibles," the men and women in the intelligence and uniformed services actually fighting the war on terrorism, and the "notables," high-level officials who "tell us that everything will be fine, or that we should be very afraid, or both." Suskind, who won the Pulitzer Prize as a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, wrote the 2004 best seller The Price of Loyalty, an inside look at the Bush Administration...
...Crime syndicates are widely believed to control the business, worth an estimated $1.7 billion a year, according to the IIPA. With Russia seeking entry to the World Trade Organization (WTO), Western governments are pressuring Moscow to crack down on counterfeiting. Yet the trade is flourishing. "We've put very high-level pressure on the Russians to deal with this," says a Bush administration official. Two Bush cabinet heads have discussed allofmp3.com with Russian government ministers, to no avail, he adds. Says the official, "this is our poster child for the problem...
...coal-fired power plant is around 1,000 tonnes a day." Used fuel rods can be reprocessed into new fuel, reducing the volume of waste that needs to be stored by over 90%; turning the waste into synthetic rock reduces this even further. If it's not reprocessed, this high-level waste stays toxic for 1,000 years or more. Nuclear opponents say storage is a serious problem and that existing facilities are almost full. France, Sweden, Finland and the U.S. have built or are planning long-term storage vaults deep underground; former Prime Minister Bob Hawke has said that...