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...Cheney noted that "we have been safe for six years." She did not mention that almost 4,000 U.S. service members and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians have lost their lives. But history might note that. Lawrence J. Martin, Elburn...
...proportion is among the defining qualities of a judge. Yet the Roberts Court so far is better known for making symbolic mountains out of real-life molehills. Roberts' first written dissent, published six months after he joined the court, seemed to accuse the majority of making the world safe for wife beaters. The case at hand dealt with a fillip in the vast edifice of Fourth Amendment law governing police searches. To wit: What if a husband and wife are together at their home and the wife invites the police in to search for her husband's drug paraphernalia...
...early to tell how the mass drowning will affect Africa's wildebeest population as a whole. But it's safe to say that as the weather gets more erratic, these kinds of freak deaths will become more common - early last year, the Masai Mara had the opposite problem, and a drought left almost 100 hippos dead. These days, it looks like the only alternative to letting nature take its course is to change the course of nature...
...such as Ebola, ricin and monkeypox - the vetting focuses on security, not bio-safety competence. Yet most lab accidents are due to simple human error, says Dr. Gigi Gronvall, Senior Associate at the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh. Newbies to the lab are typically indoctrinated to safe lab habits through a mentor-apprentice process, but the recent, rapid expansion of bio-labs has stretched thin the pool of experienced lab workers...
...journalism. The book is told chiefly from the perspective of Antonina Zabinski, who, with her husband Jan, served as the keeper of the Warsaw Zoo under the Nazi regime. The two Polish Christians turned their war-ravaged zoo into a center of resistance against the Nazis and a safe haven for Jewish escapees. The Zabinskis managed to keep their zoo under the guise of running a pig and fur farm to supply German troops, but scores of fugitives from the Warsaw ghetto and other Nazi victims were hidden in the villa, the empty cages, and among the animals...