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...video-which goes on to record the apparent killing of two more puppies-is the most shocking footage from a cache of 64 videotapes obtained in Afghanistan by CNN correspondent Nic Robertson and viewed by TIME last week...
...Afghans who supplied the tapes told Robertson the video trove was recovered from a house formerly used by senior al-Qaeda leaders, including Osama bin Laden. If the tape of the dog dying was indeed produced by al-Qaeda, it provides the first publicly available visual evidence that the group has tested chemical agents on live subjects. John Gilbert, a former U.N. and Pentagon chemical-weapons inspector who viewed the tapes, says the dog?s spasmodic reaction indicates that it might have been subjected to a nerve gas like sarin...
...Internet, of course. In the past two years, online providers in Canada have been doing a booming business selling prescription drugs to Americans via the Web. Dave Robertson, an Alberta pharmacist who founded CrossBorderPharmacy.com reports that his company has been filling 1,000 prescriptions a day and predicts that number could rise to 10,000 by December...
...common finding in people who die suddenly of heart disease. But that doesn't mean the fatty deposits or plaques clogging his arteries had been there--or had been that large--for long. "Small plaques that burst can be just as deadly as large ones," says Dr. Rose Marie Robertson, past president of the American Heart Association and a professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. "You could have a 30% narrowing yesterday that becomes 90% to 100% with a plaque rupture today...
...degree and a fire-chief-of-the-year award turned out to be fabrications. In the past six months, coaches at Notre Dame, Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt were all caught with fiction on their resumes. And these followed a parade of high-profile folks accused of falsifications, including Pat Robertson (claimed he saw combat in Korea), Senator Joseph Biden (inflated his law-school class rank) and historian Joseph Ellis (made up stories about parachuting into Vietnam...