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...Washington's habitual CYA--cover your you-know-what. Says a senior U.S. official: "We don't want to get caught with our socks down again [as in Kenya and Tanzania]. If we warn people and nothing happens, they may be a little ticked off, but that's better than saying nothing if there's a chance something bad is going to happen...
...passengers aboard the hijacked Indian Airlines plane in Afghanistan had better cancel their New Year's plans. That assessment after the country's ruling Taliban militia on Thursday eliminated what may have been India's strongest negotiating tool - the threat of force. The Taliban has also warned that if the Indian government and the hijackers haven't managed to negotiate an end to the dispute by Saturday, the plane will be forced to leave Afghanistan. "The Taliban's ruling council has decreed that no foreign military personnel will be allowed onto Afghan soil, and that rules out a commando raid...
...never know what Ahmed Ressam planned to do with the explosives in his car, but that's better than finding out the hard way. U.S. law enforcement officials said Thursday that sophisticated military grade explosives had been found in medicine containers being carried by the Algerian national who was nabbed trying to cross into Washington State from Canada with a trunkload full of DIY bomb-making material. And Federal prosecutors announced they'd found a link between Ressam and Lucia Garofalo, the Canadian woman arrested last week trying to cross into Vermont with an Algerian companion. Information supplied...
...those interested in facing mortality head-on, there are few better routes to grisly self-discovery than medical school. Unfortunately, according to a report in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, at least one commonly-used teaching technique may compromise young doctors' ability to see their patients as human beings. For many years, interns and residents have practiced a critical - some say unnecessarily invasive - procedure on patients who have failed to respond to 20 minutes of resuscitation and who are moments from clinical death. It's then that new doctors, who often find themselves under pressure to quickly deliver...
...care, right to life, empathy and respect." These two positions are neatly represented in Thursday's report; of 234 residents and interns interviewed, two-thirds felt the tube-threading procedure should not be performed. The remaining doctors disagreed, saying the maneuver would help them learn, and treat future patients better. "This process brings up something people are uncomfortable with," one doctor not involved in the study told the New York Times. "Doctors must learn to care for patients and master their skills on patients. Doing it in a responsible and ethical manner is a responsibility...