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...Number of Boy Scouts of America leaders electrocuted while setting up a tent near power lines during a scout meeting in Virginia last week...
JEFF GUMP -- Virginia Beach...
...pain wars escalated last April when Virginia internist Dr. William Hurwitz was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison after 16 former patients testified against him and a jury found that the death of another patient was caused by an overdose. Hurwitz's assets were seized, and now he is appealing his conviction with the help of the pain foundation and the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. Hurwitz defenders acknowledge that he may have practiced overly aggressive medicine and allowed addicts to snooker him, but insist he never profited from drug sales and was not a criminal. "Maybe...
...Regardless of how many disclaimers there are, the fact is that a general in the P.L.A. made a highly provocative threat about using nuclear weapons first in a conflict with the U.S.," says Evan Medeiros, an expert on the Chinese military at the Rand Corp., a think tank in Virginia. "This reinforces longstanding American concerns about China's willingness to use force over Taiwan and the potential for nuclear escalation." Near the end of his comments last week, Zhu added that he was confident the U.S. and China would not go to war "unless the politicians of these two countries...
...Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, the intelligence committee's top Democrat, says that's not the point. President Bush's top advisor, Karl Rove, and others who identified Plame as a CIA employee were picking on someone smaller than them, he says. ?If you're among the top three or four people in the top place in Washington-the White House-you have to be incredibly scrupulous,? Rockefeller told TIME. ?It just doesn't set well. When you have a calculated effort to defame a person whom you've never met, I don't think that's forgivable...