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...often been at the other end of the scale of humane treatment, at least until recently. Although the prison was at times crowded with as many as 7,000 detainees, no U.S. doctor was in residence for most of 2003. Military officials say a few Iraqi doctors saw to minor illnesses but not major traumas. In a statement obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union, an Army medic based at Abu Ghraib spoke of examining from 800 to 900 detainees daily as they were admitted. If he worked a 12-hour day, that gave him less than a minute...
...everything. He wrote essays and books on Oxford philosophy, German theology, Gandhi's fight with his sexuality, the life of the writer R.K. Narayan, and Indira Gandhi's political fall and resurrection. His masterpiece is a long essay on Calcutta called "The City of Dreadful Night"?a jarring, clangorous, minor-key symphony, alive with the bustle and despair of the city, which ends with Mehta's quietly following Mother Teresa as she walks through a lepers' colony. At their best, his articles and essays throb with unforgettable details?how the English philosopher Bertrand Russell spoke with exaggerated...
...aspirin daily to prevent a second stroke should know that patients in a study who stopped taking it tripled their risk of having another stroke within a month. Two-thirds of the patients quit--probably unnecessarily--on their doctor's say-so in preparation for surgery or because of minor intestinal bleeding...
...Officer dispatched to 219 Western Avenue Lot in Allston to report a hit-and-run with property damage. The hit, parked vehicle sustained a “minor dent...
...Moscow think tank. Known as a Putin supporter, an advocate of the state-sponsored dismantling of oil titan Yukos, and a reliable bellwether for the nationalist wing of the Moscow élite, Belkovsky turned on Putin last week. In an interview with TIME, he dismissed the President as "a minor clerk" who ended up running Russia "by a stroke of luck." He claimed that "disappointment and irritation" with Putin are growing in the middle ranks of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the KGB and a crucial Putin power base. And he predicted that opposition will continue...