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...system is too open to manipulation and needs reform, says the 4,000-member American Association of Physicians and Surgeons. The Semmelweis Society agrees; its 85 members are mostly doctors who claim to be victims of "malicious peer review," in which the process is used to damage competitors or punish whistle-blowers. Support for reform is also widespread among doctors who work in patient-safety policymaking, says Robert Wachter, co-author of Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes. "We need as transparent and objective a system as possible," he says...
Those who bombed the Madrid commuter lines last year were obsessed with Iraq. They delighted in the videotape that showed Iraqis rejoicing alongside the bodies of seven Spanish intelligence agents who were killed outside Baghdad in November 2003; they spoke of the need to punish Spain (their adoptive country) for supporting America; they recruited others to fight in the insurgency. They began work on their plot the day after hearing an audiotaped bin Laden threaten "all the countries that participate in this unjust war [in Iraq]--especially Britain, Spain, Australia, Poland, Japan and Italy." It had been the first time...
...order to receive grant money [from the NIH], each university has to put in place a mechanism” to investigate such charges, Bruske said. She added that “various measures [could be] put in place” by the government to punish Douglass if Harvard concludes there was wrongdoing...
...nation was facing the monumental and confounding task of restoring peace after four years of broiling war. Lincoln had thought both North and South were complicit in the shame of slavery. He even suggested, in his second Inaugural Address, that God may have brought "this terrible war" to punish both regions, urging the nation to bind up its wounds "with malice towards none, with charity...
...special panel appointed by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger in the wake of the Navy's Walker-family spy scandal last summer. The 14-member panel, headed by retired Army General Richard Stilwell, offered 63 recommendations for combating the plague of espionage. Among them: tougher criminal laws to punish defense contractors and Government workers who mishandle secret information, more restrictive secrecy classifications and expanded use of lie-detector tests for military personnel...