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...people and his neighbors. Instead, it is being remembered by the sounds heard on the widely disseminated video of Saddam's final moments - Shi'ite partisans chanting sectarian slogans and praising the radical cleric Moqtada Sadr. Saddam's rule has relatively few defenders in Iraq and beyond, yet the serious flaws in his trial and execution gave many the impression of mob justice rather than the rule...
...better spent creating or requisitioning subsidized housing for the homeless, offering a base of stability from which they can reintegrate into society. Successful case histories have shown, those experts note, that homeless people require a minimum of two years from leaving the streets to the time they have serious hopes of landing a stable job - for which a fixed address is always a requirement...
...stepfather's paint company weathered the Depression without serious deprivations, and Ford was a happy, popular teenager and a standout on his high school football team. In 1931 he enrolled at the University of Michigan on a full athletic scholarship. He majored in economics, played center on the Big Ten varsity squad and during his senior year was chosen to participate in the Shrine College All-Star game...
...Ironically, the shrinking pipeline comes at a time when basic science is bursting with new breakthroughs in fields like human genome decoding, which in turn have raised hopes for breakthrough cures and treatments of serious illnesses. But the numbers show otherwise. The GAO reviewed all 1,264 of the new drug applications submitted for FDA approval from 1993-2004 and found that 60% of them were actually for what industry analysts call "me too" drugs-variations of medications already out on the market. Only 12% of the applications were for what the FDA classified as "priority" new drugs-that...
...Those charges were not serious enough to warrant their arrest, and the two are now back in Long Island, says their lawyer. The charges carry a maximum sentence of four years, and such relatively short sentences are often commuted. Even though the two could theoretically be called to give more evidence from the U.S. under the two countries' Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, their lawyer makes it clear they won't be returning to Brazil...