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...student who had her two-hour meeting with the FBI on campus after an agent called her cell phone to set up a date told the Stanford Daily that the interview was oddly detailed. "They asked me various questions ranging from my religious beliefs to my sentiments about poverty-stricken nations to my future marriage plans," she said...
...paying a bounty for human organs? Is there a better way? It?s a sticky policy debate - made even more complicated by the introduction of cold, hard cash in exchange for human tissue, a practice some medical ethicists consider the ultimate taboo. Cases in Asia, where prisoners and poverty-stricken parents have given up organs (or had them stolen) for much-needed cash, highlight the disastrous potential of such a plan taken to extremes...
...Outside the compound, the American retrieval mission quickly turned into one of rescue, as the 10th Mountain forces drove their seven light vehicles into the fort to evacuate the stricken U.S. and British troops. Northern Alliance commanders were spitting with rage. "Call it off!" shouted one general as Alliance soldiers streamed out of the fort. "Call it off! You've hit the wrong people!" Perry can confirm that at least three Afghan soldiers were killed and four injured by the stray bomb; one Northern Alliance commander put the numbers far higher, at 30 killed and 50 wounded...
...fear began to spread, the search for the killer began in one of the most intensive efforts at medical sleuthing ever undertaken in the U.S. Now that the alert had been sounded, the case files quickly swelled. Within the week, more than 130 people, mostly men, had been stricken and hospitalized, and 25 had died. Each report fueled the nation's anxiety, producing panicky calls to doctors and hospitals from people who developed any of the reported and not uncommon symptoms... "There's an outside chance we may never find out the cause," says CDC director David Spencer. "I think...
Again, we have to look at our actions and compare it to our rhetoric. If we claim to be on the side of the poor Afghani civilians, and indeed the poverty-stricken victims of repressive, terrorist-harboring regimes world-wide, then we must be making a concerted effort to help the people most consistently brutalized by those regimes. Once we have helped them throw off the bonds of terror, we must be committed to helping them improve their quality of life. Otherwise our assistance will seem merely self-serving, hollow words from a hollow, self-interested nation...