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...doctor. "Enough with the hindsight," said private business owner Zhang Zaihua, 26. "Where were all those supervisors before this whole thing happened?" Zhang's 19-month-old daughter, who had been fed one of the brands on the government's blacklist of tainted products, had to undergo testing after traces of blood were found in her urine, a possible indication that she might have developed kidney stones caused by the addition of the chemical additive melamine. Zhang said he didn't hold grudges against any individual officials but rather the "collective moral corruption of the producers...
...Similar and simple: you never go wrong assuming the worst. "I hate scumbags," Turk says. "I like shooting people." He explains that he joined the police force for the badge and the gun. "Most people respect a badge. Everybody respects a gun." After a few suspicious homicides, both men undergo a brief psychiatric evaluation. When the shrink asks, "How do you feel when innocent people get killed?" Rooster replies, "You know, I sorta got numb to it." He's been around too long for remorse; that just slows down the trigger-finger reflex, gets...
...footedness gave criminals time to wrap their tentacles around the district, as the city's first high-profile sex-trafficking trial showed this summer. Two German-Turkish brothers, Saban and Hasan Baran, were charged with running a large-scale prostitution operation, assaulting prostitutes and forcing some of them to undergo breast-enlargement operations; they were convicted and sentenced to prison terms in July. Yet despite that victory, law-enforcement officials believe many other criminals are escaping prosecution. "Girls just will not go to the police, in case these men threaten their families at home," says a police officer who didn...
...Zebari said the draft agreement would undergo review by a special executive council in the weeks ahead. But the final decision on approving the deal rests with al-Maliki, a Prime Minister who has become increasingly assertive of his independence from Washington as his stature has grown in Baghdad and abroad...
HIV/AIDS patients at the Amsterdam clinic must now undergo mandatory hepatitis C screening; meanwhile, other studies suggest prevention efforts can be implemented much earlier. According to separate research conducted at the same Dutch clinic, 10% of 306 gay patients reported experiencing loss of sensation when using condoms, then intentionally ditching protection during sex. "We're making a proposal to the government to prescribe men with Viagra in order to increase their chance of using condoms," says Udi Davidovich, a senior researcher at GGD Amsterdam...