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...government in Baghdad considers illegal. Nevertheless, several smaller oil firms from Austria, Hungary, India, Canada and South Korea have signed deals with the Kurdish Regional Government. But most big players at present appear to be eyeing potential ventures in Iraq's vast oil territory around Basra instead. Years of neglect have left many oil fields there looking like junkyards. Rusting vehicles, heaps of trash and pools of spilled oil litter a hazy expanse dotted with plumes of flames from gas flares. "We need equipment; we need instruments; we need a lot of technical help," says Jabbar al-Ueaibi, the head...
...condition characterized by mental retardation. An Indiana hospital let him starve to death after his parents decided to forgo surgery to remove an obstruction in his esophagus. Profoundly upset by the news, President Reagan ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to prevent all further instances of calculated neglect. In 1983 the department proposed a set of controversial regulations requiring child-protection agencies to police federally assisted hospitals and examine medical records to prevent willful neglect. Shortly before the regulations went into effect, a baby girl identified as Baby Jane Doe was born with severe birth defects in Port...
...building, local legend goes, two men--union organizers--were hauled out from a mine they were hiding in and lynched. All that history is falling in on itself, but Henry Berg (yup, Jim's cousin), who owns the Belmont Inn with his wife Bertie, is fine with a little neglect. What he really fears is that the electricity will get hooked up. "We don't want power, but it will come in someday, and that will be the end of it," he says. "More people will come in, and they'll want to build a Wal-Mart...
...Stanford and lead author of the study. "And it's extremely interesting that the four factors do not actually relate to the embryos that are transferred to the womb. So while it's still important to identify the best embryos for transfer, this suggests that we shouldn't neglect all the other embryos and the information that we can extract from them...
Residents are also frustrated by what they see as continued government neglect after American air strikes toppled houses, charred ambulances, and turned school buildings to rubble. In a dusty alley in sector 10, Badria Imrais, 54, stands in the pile of cement rubble and broken furniture that used to be her home. "I applied for compensation, but of course there is nothing. I go [to the Iraqi troops] but there is nothing," she told TIME. The American air strike, which brought down Imrais' house and part of a neighbor's, killing her son, came after a man fired...