Word: methods
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...Souza defended the U.S. practice of “water boarding,” a method of interrogation that simulates drowning. Last week, Vice President Dick Cheney said in an interview that dunking terrorist suspects in water was a “no-brainer,” sparking debate over whether he had endorsed “water boarding”—a practice prohibited by the Army and considered torture by many human rights groups and international courts...
...stem the catastrophic tide of the African AIDS epidemic. According to a recent Boston Globe article, CARE lost a $50 million contract for combating AIDS, as government opted to grant $200 million to faith-based programs, which will advocate the divinely inspired “abstinence-only” method of disease control, after heavy public pressure from evangelical Christians...
...While Cohen claims in an interview with Amazon.com to have written the book to “raise awareness of the kinds of threats that we face in the future,” he succeeds only in raising awareness of how politics, once a method of discourse, has mutated into a language all its own—one that many Americans are unable to speak...
...favorite method of gauging the vitality of India's publishing industry is to weigh it. That's what I did with the October issue of the local edition of Cosmopolitan. At 1,016 pages it landed with a solid thunk on my desk, evoking a mixture of shock and curiosity. Shock that anyone would need a thousand pages-plus of sex advice, fashion and beauty tips; and curiosity as to the secret of Cosmo's success given the struggle so many publishers in America face over declining readership and fickle ad sales. The verdict? October's Cosmo weighed a hefty...
...voters themselves. But in a venture this large, trouble is most likely to come from just plain human error, a fact often overlooked in an environment as charged and conspiratorial as America is in today. Four years after Congress passed a law requiring every state to vote by a method more reliable than the punch-card system that paralyzed Florida and the nation in 2000, the 2006 election is shaping up into a contest not just between Democrats and Republicans but also between people who believe in technology and those who fear machines cannot be trusted to count votes...