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...issue is a Democratic proposal to require the U.S. intelligence community to limit its interrogation techniques to those contained in a military training book called the Army Field Manual. Several Democrats who have received classified briefings on the current CIA interrogation program have said that the U.S. continues to approve of methods that they believe to be immoral and illegal. The CIA will not discuss the methods, except to say that waterboarding, a form of simulated drowning historically considered to be illegal, is no longer employed...
...three-ply toilet paper. Or at least two-ply. Anything less just isn’t sanitary. Seriously. 4) Vespas for Quadlings. It’ll look like Hells Angels took over Garden Street every day. But Euro chic. 5) On dorm room doors, eye readers instead of keys. Manual locks are so passé. 6) Students will now get $600/semester in Board Plus. Greenhouse Café is going to have some long lines. 7) Plasma TVs mounted on dining hall walls, broadcasting pertinent information like which dishes require a fork. 8) Instead of “Savory Spotlights...
...treatment of prisoners remains in the headlines. The governments in Baghdad and Washington together still hold tens of thousands of prisoners in Iraq amid continuing controversy over their legal rights. U.S. military interrogators are currently limited to the less aggressive methods of questioning listed in the Army's field manual, though President George W. Bush recently vetoed a bill that would have put similar limits on the CIA. For its part, the agency is investigating the destruction of videos allegedly showing torture in its secret overseas prisons, while Attorney General Michael Mukasey remains on the defensive for not condemning specific...
...even as it clings - for better and for worse - to the past, the Masters has a gift for reinventing itself and embracing technological innovation. The tournament uses manual, not electronic, scoreboards, while simultaneously running a website offering up-to-the-second updates. Sandwiches at the venue cost no more than $2.50, even as tickets swap hands for hundreds outside the gates. Spectators are kicked off the property if caught using a cell phone, even though buried under the course's fairways are thousands of feet of high-definition television cable, irrigation pipes wired to an on-site weather radar...
...ideas result in some passages that will strike many readers as far-fetched, if not downright silly. They also prevent a simple enjoyment of the book - its pleasant pastoral passages are sooner or later interrupted by jarring expositions that wouldn't look out of place in a 19th century manual of eugenics. Here's one from the novel's main character, Chen Zhen...