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...Before this year, the feeding chair - marketed as a "padded cell on wheels" by its Iowa manfacturer - was evidently used sparingly. In comments several months ago, SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Bantz Craddock, who oversees Gitmo, joked that at least hunger strikers got to choose the color of their feeding tube (yellow was a favorite), and the flavor of the lozenges used to soothe thoats irritated by the feeding tubes. "Look, they get choices," Craddock said at the time. "And that's part of the problem." At the peak of a protest last fall, 131 protesters, or more than 25%, were...
Pull into a BP station this holiday weekend and you may notice a green and yellow starburst over the pump, an image intended to remind you, as you?re emptying your wallet of $20 bills, that at least you?re supporting a green company. BP, after all, was the first oil giant to publicly acknowledge the risks of global warming, back in 1997. The firm has cut its own carbon emissions 10% below 1990 levels and last year established an alternative energies division. It?s investing big money - $8 billion over the next decade - on renewable fuels, such as wind...
...rain forests and squalid towns of Panama were rife with diseases like malaria and yellow fever. As many as 20,000 people died during the French effort to build a canal in the late 1800s. But as a result of his work in Cuba after the Spanish-American War, a tireless American doctor named William Gorgas came to believe strongly in the new discovery that a specific mosquito spread yellow fever. Overcoming doubters, he began a widespread campaign of mosquito eradication and sanitation improvements. The death rate among canal workers plummeted...
...tennis lesson who gets a bloodsucker stuck to her arm. It gradually emerges, and we see it?s a small homunculus named Yamada (as in "Ya mada?s so ugly, she looks like a bloodsucker"). But the bit about a girl asked by a guy in a yellow fur suit to pull on his umbilical cord? on that one I was with the girl, who says, "Honestly, I haven?t the foggiest." The prankster and his two cohorts shrugs off her bafflement by explaining, "Some days people laugh, some days they don?t. Today?s skit was adult-oriented...
...Suskind reports new details on Delta Force's shipment of a hatbox-sized container to Dulles Airport in Washington's Virginia suburbs in mid-2002. The round metal box, Army green with "US GOVERNMENT" emblazoned in yellow, purportedly contained the severed head of Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's top deputy. He supposedly had been killed in December 2001, and buried in an Afghan riverbed. With a $25 million bounty on his head, Afghan tribal chiefs provided the jawless head to the U.S. military. The skull, Suskind reports, still had a bit of skin attached to its crown when the container...