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...When Morris?s better self - the earnest and morally alert documentarian takes over - the film is very much better. He particularly wants to destroy the notion that the crimes committed at Abu Ghraib were solely the work of a few low ranking ?rotten apples.? In his interviews with them they largely come off as young, ill-educated, and very suggestible - almost as premoral as children - and he is not without a certain human sympathy for them. Their unseen higher-ups wanted intelligence (particularly about Saddam?s whereabouts) and did nothing to discourage any behavior that would degrade...
...There is no way to ignore or avoid the fact that this money came from the labor of others,” Manegold said. “It engages the notion of how much America has forgotten about slavery here in the North...
...Such a depiction conveys the dangerous notion that plastic surgery is just as simple and routine as applying lipstick. This speaks to a culture that now uses Botox more than braces, in spite of new research from the Italian Institute of Neuroscience shows that the botulinum toxin used in facial injections can migrate into the brainstem and cause death...
...there were any true believers in such a rosy scenario still to be found within the Democratic party, they were likely disabused of that notion by the results of Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary. After six weeks of an increasingly negative contest, Clinton's solid, 10-point victory almost guarantees that the Democratic race will continue into June. The once-gleeful pundits now find themselves turning their rental cars toward Indiana while Republicans marvel at their luck and Democrats try to game out a resolution that doesn't involve a convention-floor battle in Denver...
Lee’s work in human genetics identifies copy number variation, a phenomenon that occurs when DNA segments are missing or duplicated. His findings proved that contrary to the prevailing notion that human genomes differ by less than 0.1 percent, there is actually significant variation, with hundreds of DNA sequences that are different...