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...wake of Robert Towne’s new film “Ask the Dust,” it’s an opportune time to take a look at Towne’s previously masterful crafting of a superior 1930s Los Angeles tale, 1974’s “Chinatown...
...extent to which senior Army officers may have established guidelines that led to abuse in the first place. Lawyers for Smith, who faces a sentence of more than 24 years in prison, claim that he broke no rules but rather was merely following officially sanctioned policies handed down by superior officers. Other soldiers found guilty of abuse at Abu Ghraib, including Charles Graner and Lynndie England, were never able o demonstrate that their actions had been approved by higher...
...already started to pay off. Sadowsky is using a robotic system that can sample about 40,000 bacterial colonies at once. Using markers for geese that he pinpointed, he successfully identified geese as the source of contamination at a Lake Superior beach last year--allowing a beach to remain open that otherwise would have been closed. Identifying DNA markers for human fecal bacteria is next on his list...
However, Bok argues that the sluggishness of colleges’ progress is a problem of method, not of intention. Faculty are not apathetic or lazy, he writes, only ignorant of research identifying active teaching methods as superior to the old-fashioned lecture. He writes that “faculties seem inclined to use research and experimentation to understand and improve every institution, process and human activity except their...
...that was--though not a violation of Defense Department policy-- cumulatively "abusive and degrading." It specifically recommended that the commandant of Guantnamo, Major General Geoffrey Miller, be reprimanded for failing to adequately monitor the interrogation of a high-value detainee, believed to be al-Qahtani. But Miller's superior, Southern Command Commander General Bantz Craddock, decided against the reprimand. Congress last December passed a provision, sponsored by Senator John McCain of Arizona, that bars U.S. personnel from engaging in "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment" of detainees anywhere. The provision came too late for al-Qahtani; it's not clear...