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...want to let everyone know in California that everything is okay here," says Torres. But it's hard to fight the tidal wave of negative news...
...must drink should be clean. You have the right to not live next to a polluted brownfield. I am hopeful that these changes are going to happen because young people today are growing up at a time when there is a green revolution underway. We can ride that wave at EPA and get a whole wave of young people energized about the environment...
...psychiatry and criminal justice at Wayne State University, offers another explanation: the copycat effect. The copycat theory was first conceived by a criminologist in 1912, after the London newspapers' wall-to-wall coverage of the brutal crimes of Jack the Ripper in the late 1800s led to a wave of copycat rapes and murders throughout England. Since then, there has been much research into copycat events - mostly copycat suicides, which appear to be most common - but, taken together, the findings are inconclusive...
...Hayden asserts that it was only after the waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah that authorities learned about Ramzi Binalshibh, a midlevel al-Qaeda member who helped coordinate the Sept. 11 attacks. The memos also say it was because of the waterboarding of Mohammed that U.S. intelligence learned about a "second wave" of attacks planned for after Sept. 11. Was there truly another 9/11 in the works? Maybe. Or maybe Mohammed made it up to stop the waterboarding...
...World Service and a Spanish newspaper. But he quickly dropped the pen to fight the remnants of Yugoslav federal forces alongside the Croats, becoming commander of a brigade of 380 foreigners, the First International Platoon, known by its Croatian initials, PIV. (See a story about the crime wave clouding Croatia's future...