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...publish industry-funded science as long as it meets the publications' quality standards. Those standards require scientists to disclose any potential conflicts of interest. But compliance is generally based on the honor system, leaving scientists to interpret the journal policies themselves. (The PloS Medicine paper noted a sharp uptick in the number of articles citing potential conflicts over the five-year study period - a trend Ludwig attributes to more stringent journal standards and better self-policing among scientists...
...says chief of staff Joshua Bolten, "but it's a very small price to pay for having someone who is brilliant at capturing and articulating the essence of the policy message." Or at least, getting that message out. White House counselor Dan Bartlett says he has noticed a marked uptick in how much of the press secretary's briefing gets replayed on the nightly news and throughout cable since Snow took the job in April. "If he's not being quoted," says Bartlett, "then usually one of our critics are, so we'd prefer...
...Anticipating an uptick in Sunni insurgent activity, the Iraqi government cancelled all military leave and put security forces on high alert. With much of the Sunni Triangle under an all-day curfew, pro-Saddam insurgents had few opportunities to express their reaction to the verdict; in Baghdad, there was only sporadic violence. Saddam's defense lawyer, Khalil al-Dulaimi, warned in an open letter to President Bush that "this decision will set the country ablaze again and plunge the entire region into the unknown." However after the verdict al-Dulaimi told the Associated Press that Saddam had urged Iraqis...
...military activity - in which the Pakistani military lost some 800 men, about the same number of militants it was able to capture during the operation. But few outside of Pakistan have hailed the Waziristan deal as a success. NATO leaders in Afghanistan, for example, have reported a significant uptick in Taliban attacks since it was signed...
...recent uptick in prosecution and conviction of the former officers responsible for widespread human rights abuses during the 1976-83 military dictatorship has been accompanied by increasing incidents of intimidation of witnesses and judicial officials. "There has never been such a wave of threats before," adds Tati Almeida, whose own son was never seen again after being abducted by military forces three decades...