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Meanwhile, researchers like Kaye have launched a six-site National Institutes of Health-funded clinical trial to compare the Maudsley method to more traditional family therapies. At U.C. San Diego, Kaye's group also provides affected families a weeklong intensive introduction to the Maudsley method. "At first," he says, he thought it was "preposterous" that such a short period of treatment would help at all, but "now I'm a believer. It doesn't work for everyone, but it does work...
...convicted offenders, and sex offenders in all 50 states are required to submit DNA samples to law enforcement. (See the top 10 unsolved crimes.) In the early days of DNA testing, juries confronted with the novel technology sometimes hesitated to convict based on genetic evidence - witness the O.J. Simpson trial in 1995, when the ex-football star was acquitted, in part as a result of doubts about the reliability of evidence based on blood found at the murder scene. But analysts say those doubts have eased as scientific know-how improves and the public becomes more familiar with the practice...
...During the trial, Wells, the AIG lawyer, played a video of a speech Greenberg made in 1996 to top AIG executives who had received shares through Starr's compensation plan. Wells asked Greenberg to raise his hand at the point when, during his videotaped explanation of the program, he stated that Starr had the right to cancel the plan and use its AIG shares for other purposes. The speech ran more than six minutes. Greenberg never raised his hand...
...protesters, reinforced their conviction that they are not alone and engaged populations outside Iran in an emotional, immediate way that was never possible before. President Ahmadinejad - who happened to visit Russia on Tuesday - now finds himself in a court of world opinion where even Khrushchev never had to stand trial. Totalitarian governments rule by brute force, and because they control the consensus worldview of those they rule. Tyranny, in other words, is a monologue. But as long as Twitter is up and running, there's no such thing...
...British secondary school students attend citizenship classes, but this 20-week course is designed to complement those lessons, incorporating Koranic scripture as a key teaching tool. The classes cover topics including What is Democracy?; Law and Order; and British or Muslim, or British Muslim? Officials say the trial classes, which ended in April, were a success. "The feedback we received was very positive," says Khalid Mahmood, project manager. "Teachers have said [the materials] kept the children very engaged." From May 22, final versions of the lessons went online at theiceproject.com. While it's a voluntary program, "we expect there will...