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...Chrysler say that they need $22 billion. Rattner calls it differently. He told Bloomberg, "It could be considerably higher, I won't deny that", when asked whether U.S. aid sought by the car companies could increase. "Like all management teams they tend to take a reasonably, slightly perhaps, optimistic, view of their business. So it could be more, I can't rule that...
...Healing a National Wound Senator Patrick Leahy's advocacy for a truth commission, charged with uncovering facts about alleged torture and civil-liberties abuses by the Bush Administration, is warranted [March 2]. Despite all that is right about our country, it is painfully clear that we tend to set aside the moral and ethical breaches in our history. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up in South Africa in the aftermath of apartheid was designed to encourage a national catharsis of a shameful past. Most agree that the effort was worthwhile. Some would say there can be no forgiveness without...
...evidence we have, we can deduce that at least one of the brothers took part in the crime, but it has not been possible to determine which one." Identical twins share 99.99% of their genetic information, and the tiny differences are impossible to isolate because of their nature; they tend to be spontaneous mutations limited to certain organs or tissues. "Identifying those [differences] would amount to dissecting the suspects," says Peter M. Schneider, a University of Cologne forensic expert. "Our hands are tied in a case like this," says criminal-law expert Hans-Ullrich Paeffgen of Bonn University...
...news from other media, mostly TV. But since papers are the primary source for most other news outlets, a major link will be missing from the news ecosystem. If a paper does not cover a story, it is unlikely to be covered in the broadcast media, whose reporting staffs tend to be even smaller...
...study examined 456 commercial drivers over a 15-month period. Of the 20 who were both confirmed with OSA and participated in a sleep study, only one complied with treatment. suggesting that OSA-stricken truck drivers tend to avoid taking measures to treat their illnesses...