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...government hungry for clues about the enemies' plans, one problem with the Geneva Convention governing treatment of traditional prisoners of war is that it includes strict rules limiting interrogation. So these detainees are called "enemy combatants," and there is no field manual outlining the rules for handling them. Inmates arrive with no knowledge of how long they will stay, facing the possibility of trial by a military tribunal whose procedures have yet to be tested, on charges that have yet to be revealed and that carry sentences that may depend on not just what crimes they committed but what country...
...Expect A Manual A pirated version of Microsoft's latest operating system went on sale in Malaysia , two years before its planned release. Copies of the software - codenamed Longhorn - are going for just...
...choices that could or ought be abandoned, or diagnosed as dangerous mental ailments to be treated with drugs or psychotherapy. Gender Identity Disorder—the diagnosis with which transsexual and transgendered children and adults are classified—remains a psychiatric condition listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; homosexuality, by contrast, was declassified as a mental illness...
...shines from the Hermit Kingdom onto the river. For this narrow, watery stretch is where thousands of North Korean refugees have crossed secretly into China every year to flee famine and oppression. The vast majority are women. Although many men and children come for short stints of begging or manual labor before returning home with full bellies and a bit of cash, most North Korean women come to China for new lives. The younger, prettier ones often end up at the euphemistically named "beauty salons." But thousands more are sold by human traffickers as wives to Chinese...
...much on Sunday, it's the fact that the U.S. fixed-wing warplanes have conducted a number of bombing raids over the past week. It's not that the Pentagon believes it can vanquish a near-invisible guerrilla army from the skies - the first rule in the guerrilla manual is avoid concentrating your forces and offering a target to your enemy's air power. No, the object of the latest U.S. air strikes was not necessarily even to kill enemy fighters - the residents of some of the houses that were struck from the air were actually warned to evacuate ahead...