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...start formulating an answer, an élite group of some 30 doctors, ethicists, scientists and government officials gathered in Washington this spring to launch a movement they're calling the Second Wave of clinical research. (The first happened in the early '90s, when studies began to include large numbers of women.) A conclave of maternal-health advocates is now pushing for better information on how drugs affect pregnant women...
...Hyun, former President of South Korea, spent his life thumbing his nose at the country's political establishment. As a human-rights lawyer in the 1980s, he defended student protesters who fought the then dictatorial regime. In 2002, Roh--who never attended college--stunned South Korea's élite with his upset presidential-election victory. Less than seven years later, on May 23, he committed suicide at age 62 by jumping off a cliff while hiking near his home...
...considering the ECHR's ruling on the Katyr-Yurt attack, Shamanov's new role as head of Russia's élite airborne troops flies in the face of that promise, says HRW. "Lt. General Shamanov presided over operations fraught with human rights violations and civilian casualties," HRW states in the report. "He should be investigated, not promoted...
...year after Medvedev made his speech promising greater respect for the rule of law, a report by human-rights watchdog Amnesty International said that in Russia "impunity prevails" for human-rights violations by the government. Russia may have gained a hardened combat soldier as the leader of its élite forces, but it's losing international faith in Medvedev's reforms...
...each of 100 U.S. towns. The poorest of these folks is worth more than $100 million, and half are billionaires. Does money buy happiness? Well, yes, Jones reports: "RMITs love the lives they have created for themselves." He crunches the numbers and gives his advice about joining the élite club ("Get Addicted to Ambition," "Fail to Succeed"). But most important, keep...