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...LAPD is hoping the 362-page mea culpa it delivered Wednesday will keep the federal government at bay. The perpetually rehabilitating police force is feeling the heat as details emerge about its worst-ever scandal, which includes horrifying reports of police corruption and violence in an anti-gang unit. But the eerie familiarity of the report assembled by the LAPD Board of Inquiry and posted on the department's web site (www.lapdonline.org) has many in the city hoping that federal intervention is still...
...mea culpa points to two trends. One is a lapse in judgment by some of the journal's editors; the other is medicine's increased reliance on drug-company funding for research. "The New England Journal of Medicine is still the gold standard in credibility," says TIME health writer Janice Horowitz. "However, medical studies in general are not what they used to be. You see more and more conflicts of interest. You often see drug companies financing studies...