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...useful, privileged, treated with respect by his interrogators, like a Cold War era captured agent. Once that's no longer true, his life will turn very, very nasty. Zubaydah has every reason to lie, to throw his captors off the trail, to sow fear and doubt, to poke the U.S. so that his al-Qaeda fellows can observe how we react. Should we play along? Does passing along his uncorraborated warnings do more harm than good...
...possible to cast light on this difficult subject. Though researchers have many unanswered questions about child sexual abusers, a serious, if small, academic field is devoted to understanding and preventing their behavior--and to comprehending its effects on their victims. Such work can require cold-eyed questions that poke around the edges of our darkest taboos. At the outset, it's important to note that news accounts often conflate two phenomena: pedophilia and child sexual abuse. According to Dr. Fred Berlin, a Johns Hopkins University professor who founded the National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma...
Hendricks’ poke chased Brown starter Jamie Grillo from the game. His replacement, righthander Dan Springer, got off to a shaky start when he walked Mann with no outs, but the Crimson failed to advance him past first base...
Across the hall in the prep room of the lecture demonstration department, Brian Shaban divulges the true origins of the sign. Shaban, group leader of the Science Center electronics shop, explains that the sign was put up in the 1980s by members of the lecture demonstration department to poke fun at their more staid colleagues across the hall at the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments. “[The sign] was one of those nerd jokes,” he says...
...year-old girl lies in a hospital bed as foreign doctors poke at the blistering bruises tracing her body. Baffled, they fill petri dishes with bits of her skin and scribble detailed notes about the sores that flower bright pink and yellow. She can see her little brother next to her, and she holds his hand between their cots. Soon, her brother will die, his breath giving way to a malady humanity has never seen before: the effects of nuclear radiation...