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...Kicking Blackwater out of Iraq, as Prime Minister Maliki suggested, buys the Administration nothing. Blackwater has a cowboy reputation, but the team that pulled the trigger Sunday more than likely acted within the rules of engagement. With the caveat that first reports from the field are usually wrong, what apparently happened was that mortar rounds landed in the vicinity of the convoy. The Blackwater shooters assumed they were under attack. When a car bore down on the convoy, they made a second wrong assumption: a suicide bomber was behind the wheel. Things happened fast, and the Blackwater team fired...
...force would convene in the event of a more urgent incident involving the virus in Cambridge, according to Alpert. “We have not had any illness whatever with West Nile Virus at Harvard ever,” he said, noting that any cases in Cambridge would immediately trigger a response from the task force. Alpert added that the task force responded by spraying insecticide several years ago when infected mosquito pools were discovered but that they had since decided that a greater threat is required for response. The West Nile Virus first appeared in North America...
...bags of candy. But even within each age group, some children responded strongly and others not at all. Stevenson's team is looking at how genetic differences may explain the range of sensitivity. One of his colleagues believes that the additives may trigger a release of histamines in sensitive kids. In general, the effects of the chemicals are not so great as to cause full-blown attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Still, the paper warns that "these adverse effects could affect the child's ability to benefit from the experience of school...
...armed, he's naked. But at heart it's a two-family drama, one being Anna's sensible English aunt (Sinead Cusack) and crabby Russian uncle (Jerzy Skolimowski), the other Semyon and his son Kirill (Vincent Cassel). Kirill is like a mutant Corleone: he has Sonny's hair-trigger impulses and Fredo's drug-addled weak streak, stemming from a need to be respected by his father and from Kirill's realization that he's not measuring up - that Nikolai may be usurping his spot...
...opinion, not as good as a lot of people thought, mostly because the mumbly Ford could only play one note at a time, which meant he erred more toward likeability than toward menace. That's not a problem for Crowe, an actor with a teasing, hair-trigger temperament, who never settles for predictability when he's on screen and never lets us settle into complacency as we watch...