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...Pakistan, in whose wild hills and deep ravines the writ of the central government has never run. But other leads seem to point elsewhere. U.S. warplanes last week dropped leaflets with pictures of bin Laden, offering a $25 million reward for his capture, on the Afghan border town of Spin Boldak, much farther south, and four U.S. intelligence agents carrying satellite phones and bags full of gear arrived at the nearby Pakistani town of Quetta, capital of Baluchistan province. At the same time, persistent reports, denied by Administration officials, came in of a gunfight involving two of bin Laden...
...We’re around for everyday needs,” says Craig Newmark, the list’s founder. Newmark’s original, San Francisco-based craigslist.org, which he started in 1995, gained such a strong following in the Bay Area that the need for spin-off sites in other cities became apparent. Boston was chosen as Craigslist’s first expansion city in 2000 because of its high concentration of Internet users. “Boston is a city with a lot of people on the web, and there’s probably a high correlation...
...boycotting “The O’Reilly Factor” (Comment, “Boycotting the Boycotter”, March 11). Anyone who equates hard-core porn with “Joe Millionaire,” and Ludacris with Ozzy Osbourne, could never exist within a no-spin zone...
...Fair and Balanced” or “We Report. You Decide.” O’Reilly himself lies to his viewers every night by posing as an “independent” who resides in the fantasy land of the “no-spin zone.” I don’t know about you folks, but I am drawing the line here and tuning out this harmful programming...
Despite all these concerns, attitudes toward medical errors are starting to change. Gallagher says there has been "a gradual loosening" among hospital administrators in charge of managing risk about the disclosure of medical errors. Rather than instructing physicians to be "spin doctors" and keep a cautious tongue, more and more hospitals are letting them be what they are: medical doctors who are human and sometimes make mistakes...