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...researcher for the New York City-based Human Rights Watch, says that "scores of people have disappeared." Musharraf's forces, he says, are carrying out "a policy of abduction, illegal confinement and torture." The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has documented claims that after a truck hit a land mine on Jan. 11, killing three Frontier Constabulary guards, government security forces went on a rampage executing 12 civilians. Two tribal elders sent to recover the bodies were also shot, says the Human Rights Commission. Pakistani army officials deny that soldiers have engaged in abuse or indiscriminate killing. A Pakistani military...
...local cameraman, whose pictures of a young girl wailing for her fatally wounded relatives generated intense scrutiny. The source of the beach blast is being fiercely-debated - Palestinians say it was an incoming Israeli artillery shell, but the Israeli military denies the charge, claiming that it was possibly a mine or some other explosive buried on the beach by Palestinians...
...playing a massive role in environmental pollution and doing little to help residents of the delta. The international community, especially the U.S. and Britain, should do more so the world does not wake up to another Iraqi-style insurgency. Henry Ilonah Reading, England Like Canaries in a Coal Mine Ii was shocked to learn from "Bye bye Birdies" [May 22] that climate change may be killing migratory birds. I had no idea there was a link between declining bird populations and global warming. We should not forget that the death of even a single bird because of environmental factors...
...team considered other models--a dartboard with a perfect outcome as the bull's-eye, or a minefield, in which a mine represents death and a rock might be, say, nausea. That analogy failed. ("People thought they could step over the side effects," he says.) The roulette wheel best illustrated the range of outcomes. With medical care, as with that little white ball, says Hoffman, "you know that it could land anywhere...
...With that last comment I saw the medical senior resident's eyes shoot over to the bedside table. Mine followed his, but he got it first: "Get towels and rubbing alcohol - and we have to roll the man back on his face...