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...fully open and cooperative about allowing disease surveillance and scientific studies within their borders-and to invest in their public-health systems. We've come a long way since the secrecy of SARS, but too many countries still act as if an infectious disease is a source of shame that has to be kept inside its boundaries. But like the weather, infectious disease doesn't respect international borders...
...facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has shattered the notion, advanced by the Bush Administration, that instances of U.S.-condoned torture are scarce to nonexistent. Instead, the report details the well-entrenched methods interrogators use to extract information from prisoners. Female interrogators bare their breasts and use sexual innuendo to shame their charges. Prisoners are subjected to loud noises, bright lights and stress positions to keep them from sleeping. And, most damning of all, the very medical officials responsible for the health of prisoners are passing on information about prisoners’ weaknesses and mental states to interrogators—undermining...
...melody of your choice with their MP3 Alarm Clock. This technologically advanced timepiece connects to the USB port of your computer to download songs. You can even visit a designated website with 118 preprogrammed sounds ranging from instruments to machine-gun fire. It’s a shame that only 50 seconds of your song will be transferred to the clock, but the ease of transfer means you can wake up to a different tune each...
...going to veer off on a completely irrelevant and lengthy aside on Pittsburgh and its position in the BCS. Anyone who said that it’s a travesty or a shame or so on that the Panthers are going to a BCS bowl game by winning the Big East has absolutely no clue what he or she is talking about. The only reason the BCS was created was to make sure that the conference champions, if they finished number one or number two in the country, would be free to play each other, rather than being locked into traditional...
...other side. "I'm upset if this Marine murdered in cold blood," says Bernard Trainor, a retired Marine three-star general who faced combat in Korea and Vietnam. "But I also feel a great deal of sympathy for him." In the streets of Iraq, the verdict is already clear. "Shame on America," says Laila Hamid, a Fallujah-born Baghdad secretary. "All their lectures on democracy and human rights ... and then they show us what is really in their hearts...