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Further roiling speculation was senior diplomat David Broucher's testimony about a peculiar conversation he had with Kelly in February, before the scientist talked to the BBC. Kelly told Broucher that if Britain invaded Iraq, Kelly would "probably be found dead in the woods." Kelly was upset that he had told Iraqi scientists that there would be no repercussions if they cooperated with the U.N., and Broucher surmised that Kelly agonized over betraying his contacts. The revelation brought the investigation face to face with Kelly's pain. The emotional pitch will remain high at least until late this week, when...
...this time. That, say CDC officials, probably reflects the fact that more people are being tested and milder cases are being reported. "A quarter to a third of the cases last year were considered mild. This year it's up to half," says Dr. Tony Marfin, a CDC scientist who specializes in West Nile disease...
...kept fuels low over widespread areas. In the ponderosa pine forests of Colorado's Front Range, however, big burns were spaced farther apart, allowing flammable material to accumulate. These fires rolled through every few decades or so and occasionally burned extremely hot. Their legacy, says Merrill Kaufmann, a senior scientist with the U.S. Forest Service's Rocky Mountain Research Station, was a mosaic of forested areas that alternated with clearings ranging from 5 acres to 100 acres in size...
...were brought largely under control, the cost of the heatwave mounted. The death toll - from both the fires and heat exhaustion - reached at least 36. In Portugal, which battled devastating forest fires, the government appealed to the E.U. for 31 billion in aid. Spinning Around U.K. David Kelly, the scientist who apparently killed himself after being named as the main source for a BBC report that questioned the government's case for war against Iraq...
...scientific studies, in the '60s and '70s, basically proved that meditators are really, really focused. In India a researcher named B.K. Anand found that yogis could meditate themselves into trances so deep that they didn't react when hot test tubes were pressed against their arms. In Japan a scientist named T. Hirai showed that Zen meditators were so focused on the moment that they never habituated themselves to the sound of a ticking clock (most people eventually block out the noise, but the meditators kept hearing it for hours). Another study showed that master meditators, unlike marksmen...