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...conflicting reports on his fate. He was seen alive on one videotape, reported killed on another. Without proof of his death, the Army presumes he is still alive. His family fervently prays that is so. The months have ticked by, and Maupin has been promoted to the rank of specialist and turned 21. While most of the country may have forgotten about him since news of his capture made headlines and his bewildered face under a floppy hat was flashed across America's television screens, his hometown...
...inquiry pops up on a CO2e computer screen from a potential customer in India. Nicola Steen, CO2e's vice president and transaction specialist, is pleased. "It doesn't matter where in the world that you reduce a metric ton of carbon dioxide," she says. "If you can reduce emissions from what they otherwise would have been, that's a good thing...
...Army Specialist Charles A. Graner Jr. was sentenced last month to 10 years in prison for his role in the outrages against human dignity inflicted on Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib. Over the course of Graner’s trial, the prison guard painted a macabre picture of superiors’ instructing their subordinates to torture prisoners in violation of international law, of “ghost detainees being held without documentation to avoid their being examined by the International Red Cross, and of Army Rules of Engagement that instructed guards to follow a frightening escalating sequence of coercive tactics...
Fortunately, chronically dry eyes can usually be treated. There are dozens of over-the-counter products designed to moisten or lubricate your eyes, but you should resist the temptation to play doctor and instead should seek out an eye-care specialist. Dry eyes may be associated with an underlying medical condition like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, eczema, a viral infection or something called Sjogren's syndrome, says Dr. Esen Akpek, an ophthalmologist who runs the dry-eye clinic at Johns Hopkins' Wilmer Eye Institute. "You can also overdo it with eyedrops and actually wash out your own tears," Akpek says. Also...
Violent as these storms were, they also did some good. For the first time in recent memory, snowpack in much of the West is running well ahead of average, and that signals relief for the drought-plagued region. Even so, says NOAA drought specialist Douglas LeComte, it's too early to proclaim the long dry spell completely over. Snow is still scant in the northern Rockies and the Pacific Northwest, he notes, adding, "It will take more than one wet winter to refill the reservoirs along the Colorado River." --By J. Madeleine Nash