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JOHN MCCAIN'S BILL would protect interrogators from civil suits, would punish them only for grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and would increase rights of appeal to the U.S. courts. It would preserve references to the Geneva Conventions in the War Crimes Act. The Arizona Senator and his co-sponsors, John Warner and Lindsey Graham, argue that if the U.S. interprets Geneva to its liking, other countries will too, endangering American troops if they are captured...
...also changing the way it lends. Emerging markets remain vulnerable to financial-market turbulence?we saw a mild version of this in May. Not only is it costly, however, for a country to build its foreign reserves to protect against such risks, it also hurts the global economy if the country holds down its exchange rate in order to export more to build those reserves. There needs to be an alternative, an IMF lending facility that provides assurance to countries that financing will be available if, despite sound policies, they are hit by turbulence?and that this funding will...
...1980s, Szostak studied how cells prevent the loss of crucial genetic information during cell division. He and Elizabeth H. Blackburn, a cell biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, predicted the presence of the enzyme—now known as telomerase—which allows cells to protect their genome from degradation...
...scrutiny, interrogators will certainly appreciate concrete guidelines. Without them, intelligence officials could face inconsistent standards of what exactly crosses the line of an “outrage on human dignity.” By listing what is not permitted, however, the bill will weaken the Geneva Conventions’ protections because it will define, and thus limit, what constitutes a violation. Specific rules may be desirable, but they do not have to be written in a manner that will undermine the treaty.Phrasing the clarifications positively would more effectively uphold the Geneva Conventions. The bill, like the Army Field Manual, should...
...only the latest front in the war over funding for special education. It has been three decades since the Education for All Handicapped Children Act first guaranteed a free education tailored to meet the individual needs of students with disabilities. The goal of that law is honorable: to protect children whose disabilities for too long condemned them to low expectations. But the number of kids receiving special-ed services--for physical, cognitive, learning and other problems--has doubled since fiscal 1977, to an estimated 6.9 million (or roughly 11% of all students nationwide), and cash-strapped school districts are struggling...