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JACINTO SOLER I PADRO, corporate governance specialist in Barcelona , on Spain 's new rules requiring directors to disclose business dealings with lovers
...months starting in December 2002, Army Sergeant Erik Saar served as an Arabic translator and a military intelligence specialist at the detention facility for suspected terrorists that the U.S. operates at its naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. He recounts his experiences in a new book, Inside the Wire, co-written by TIME correspondent Viveca Novak. In the following excerpt, Saar, now retired from the Army, deals with the issue of suicide attempts among the detainees and the military's use of the Initial Reaction Force (IRF). An IRF team, Saar explains, is a five-person unit responsible...
...specialist working with Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) researchers on AIDS treatment in Nigeria said yesterday that up to 400 people may have died while waiting for treatment that was to be paid for by funds that were delayed for five months by Mass. Hall...
...When the planes collided, Heck's brain had the data it needed. He could work on automatic, whereas other people's brains plodded through the storm of new information. "Humans behave much more appropriately when they know what to expect--as do rats," says Cynthia Corbett, a human-factors specialist with the Federal Aviation Administration...
...British home-electronics retailer Dixons Group has closely tracked the rise of Russia's consumer market over the past few years, agonizing over when and how to jump in. This month, the company finally took the plunge, announcing a $1.9 billion deal to acquire Eldorado, Russia's leading specialist retailer of consumer electronics and domestic appliances, with more than 600 stores. But Dixons is still nervous about the Russian investment climate, and its worries haven't been helped by recent problems at high-profile Western firms, including BP. So the firm agreed to start paying for Eldorado only...