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...fell to U.S. forces, killing at least 34 people and wounding more than 200 in attacks on the headquarters of the International Red Cross and four Iraqi police stations around Baghdad. (Following the example of the UN before it, the ICRC has responded to the attack by preparing to withdraw most of its personnel from Iraq until such time as security improves...
...date. Decisions to remove feeding tubes or respirators from patients with no hope of recovery are daily events in hospitals. They are seen as a matter of established law, backed by such famous precedents as the 1976 Karen Ann Quinlan decision, in which parents were given permission to withdraw a respirator from their vegetative 21-year-old daughter, and the 1990 Nancy Cruzan case, in which the parents of an unconscious 33-year-old were allowed to remove her feeding tube...
...withdraw we must not siphon away resources from the Iraqi people,” Tanaka said...
...gain by avoiding hefty check-cashing fees, says Ariana-Michele Moore, an analyst at Celent Communications, a Boston-based consulting firm. Such fees are typically 2% to 3% of a check's value but can go as high as 10%. Generally, employees can use the cards at ATMs to withdraw cash or make purchases at stores. Celent estimates that by 2006, payroll cards will reach 3.8 million workers, mostly low-wage or temporary employees in industries like retail, food service, hospitality, construction and farming...
Indeed, Somalia-Vietnam analogies were soon ubiquitous. The United States had gone into the famine-stricken nation ten months earlier to mitigate a dire humanitarian crisis. But after the bloodshed of Oct. 3, a Gallup poll found that nearly seven in ten Americans wanted an immediate or gradual withdrawal of U.S. forces. President Clinton did eventually withdraw, and Somalia became yet another manifestation of the so-called “Vietnam syndrome...