Word: presentism
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...terrific time, feeling a powerful connection with this person. Afterward he had an epiphany about what Facebook should be: "I really want to see us build a product that allows you to really feel a person and understand what's really going on with them and feel present with them...
Until they do, Serbia is not entirely off the hook with the tribunal. Mladic, after all, was physically present at Srebrenica on the eve of the massacre, and his indictment is every bit as damning as Karadzic's. Still, the Karadzic arrest has set a new tone in Belgrade. Says Natasa Kandic, a human-rights activist who has spent many years researching war crimes in former Yugoslavia: "This is a breakthrough moment for Serbia...
...same risk, and not all risks are calculated using the same metric (some results compute the risk of cancer over a lifetime, for example, while others may assess the risk within a 10-year window). "We want to come together as scientists and say, Here's how we should present the information to the consumer," says Avey, who hopes the proposed voluntary industry guidelines will promote consistency among results offered by all companies that read SNPs. "And that way, when they get results back from the different companies, it's more similar...
...inhuman" interrogations, so long as the judge deems that evidence relevant and reliable. The rules also permit hearsay evidence. The judge said he would not bar statements Hamdan made after arriving at Guantánamo, where the trial's opening arguments took place Tuesday. But he insisted that prosecutors present the interrogators involved to explain the conditions under which Hamdan made those statements...
...trip to Iraq and Afghanistan was official government business, as part of a congressional delegation; from here on out, it is being orchestrated by his campaign. As such, it raises some delicate issues as he seeks to extract maximum electoral advantage - putting Obama in settings that aim to present Americans with the image of someone ready and capable to become the Commander in Chief of a superpower - without seeming presumptuous. It will be a week in which Obama tries to strike a delicate balance between statesmanship and politics...