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...isolate anyone who poses a public-health threat--including those who may have been exposed but aren't yet sick--to contain a flu pandemic or a bioterrorist attack. Various states are flexing their muscles; authorities in Arizona have locked up a TB patient because he refused to wear a mask when he went outside. In New York, patients who refuse to take their meds--an action that can promote drug-resistant strains of TB--can be confined. Such cases are a reminder that there are no antidotes yet for ignorance or indifference, and that the first line of defense...
...Jandal was not an outlaw, he was an innocent man and we will exact justice against anyone who takes the law into their own hands, even if they wear police uniforms," said Sheikh Mazen, the imam of the Harba mosque where Bilal prayed...
...have to win over the American version of loyal shoppers like Caroline Dickinson. A few weeks ago in London, the 21-year-old student waited in line for four hours for the launch of Moss's collection at Topshop. She planned to buy a $100 white cotton dress to wear at her university ball. By the time she got inside, however, she was told that item wasn't available. Unperturbed, Dickinson emerged 15 minutes later and a few hundred dollars lighter with two other dresses and a couple of vests. She vowed to come back and track down that white...
...basic standards. But it points to plenty of other failings as well. Overcrowded cells held too many prisoners guarded by unsupervised reservists with inadequate training. Left on their own, the soldiers of the 372nd practiced systematic and illegal abuse beyond what appeared in the photos, including forcing prisoners to wear women's underwear, pouring phosphoric liquid on prisoners, sodomizing a man with a chemical light and using dogs, which Muslims consider unclean, to intimidate detainees...
When I was a kid in Arkansas in the 1980s, we viewed Dallas with something approaching reverence. Mine was a fairly conservative family, aspirational. We passionately golfed and occasionally visited Neiman Marcus, the Dallas clothier that taught the South how to wear Versace and an air of profligacy. I wanted to drive a Mercedes and order bourbon and branch the way J.R. Ewing did. I wanted to go out with a Cowboys cheerleader with marcelled blond hair. The summer I was 13, Ronald Reagan was renominated in Dallas, and I signed up to be a young volunteer...