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...British ban seeks to target. "The priority will be to chase suppliers rather than users," says Martin Barnes, head of Drugscope, a nonprofit that studies drug use in the U.K., and a member of the advisory board that recommended the new bans. (See pictures of the Great American Pot Smoke...
...growing opinion that the use of force has simply failed to destroy the drug trade and other measures are needed," says Mexican political analyst José Antonio Crespo. "It appears that the White House may be starting to adjust its approach." (See pictures of the great American pot smoke...
...close reading of all three documents, released the same day that the Justice Department announced it would open up a limited investigation into the interrogations, reveals not smoke but fog. And there's just enough of it that both defenders and critics of the CIA's techniques can claim to have been vindicated. The three high-value detainees who endured the harshest interrogation did yield a trove of information, including details of some schemes to attack U.S. targets. But it's hard to gauge whether these were actually looming threats. (See portraits of Gitmo detainees...
...walls of fire have sped toward heavily populated villages and suburbs on the fringes of Athens. Tens of thousands of people have temporarily fled their homes, and more than 37,000 acres of land - including some of the last forest near the capital city - has gone up in smoke. At least 150 homes have been damaged, although, so far, there have been no casualties. (See pictures of Greece's wildfires...
...karate instructor who allegedly murdered a wealthy Pensacola, Fla., couple last month in front of their young adopted children - is a blowhard. "He's always got a big game," one friend told police, "he's always got some bullsh-t to talk about." Said another, "He's always blowing smoke up everybody's tail about, you know, 'I got this going on, we're gonna make some money,' da-da-da." As a result, "it would be easy to dismiss Gonzalez as a lying con man, which he is for the most part," notes David Morgan, sheriff of Escambia County...