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...prisoners remain in wire mesh pens edged with coils of razor wire, and earlier this year U.S. military officials revealed that a Bagram interrogator had been convicted of assaulting an Afghan detainee who later died. Just last month, the military issued a statement saying it would investigate whether a pair of U.S. soldiers had abused Afghan detainees...
...deal with my missing luggage, I went shopping in the capital and picked out new clothes and toiletries. Though the selection was somewhat limited, I ended up with a pair of rhinestone-studded jeans and a pink tracksuit. The fact that our security was willing to let me peruse the shops was a marked change from months before. (See pictures of the revival in Iraq's street life...
...textural complexity, klo:yuri is grounded in warm, intimate melodies worthy of a private salon (albeit one furnished with a laptop and a pair of keyboards). "Terra," its opener, kicks off with a frenzy of organic sounds - fast-swirling piano, skidding violin - before sliding into a further nine tracks. From the ludic raptures of "Feathers" to the slow-building threnody of "Cells That Smell Sounds" they span the spectrum of light and dark. The album's highlight comes in the form of "Null," a doozy of soaring strings, synths and syncopated percussion offset by strangely compelling counting in German, which...
...Rutger Ploeg, professor of surgery at the University Medical Center of Groningen in the Netherlands, set up a trial involving patients from the international organ exchange group called Eurotransplant. Researchers procured a pair of kidneys from 336 deceased donors and, within 24 hours, placed one from each pair in cold storage, and attached the other to a LifePort Kidney Transporter perfusion machine. The kidneys were then transplanted into 672 recipients. Among the patients who received a cold-stored kidney, 89 developed a condition called delayed graft function in which the kidney fails to function immediately after transplant. Only...
...Strip's restaurants have seen a proportional decrease along with overall visitor traffic. David McIntyre, vice president of food and beverage at MGM Grand - which counts among its stable of high-end eateries such restaurants as Shibuya, Nobhill and a pair from French maestro Joel Robuchon - notes that visitors have become more careful with their dollars. "They're still going out to eat; they're just not spending as much money," McIntyre says. "They might not have that second glass of wine." (See 10 things to do in Las Vegas...