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...either not clear or of no consequence to the upper ranks; they were simply in a bureaucratic frenzy to supply their political masters something that could be made to look like plausible intel. An interrogator insists that nothing useful could be obtained by the often sexually charged ?techniques??? employed in a prison that was a sordid, antique, ill-situated (it was almost daily under mortar fire), ill-equipped and ill-supplied. He also - very tellingly - observes that when the truth about Abu-Ghraib came out, no one above the rank of Master Sergeant was ever successfully prosecuted...
...lowest since 1937, and the figure probably has gone down further this year. Even in absolute numbers, union membership has changed only slightly through the 1970s. And much of the membership is concentrated in mass-production industries, where union jobs are threatened both by more efficient manufacturing techniques???it takes fewer workers every year to make a car or a ton of steel?and by a transfer of some operations to the largely nonunion Sunbelt. For example, General Motors has opened nine plants in the South since 1973?and kept the United Auto Workers...
...immunology?the study of the body's natural defenses against disease. That science is one of the most promising weapons yet developed by doctors in their long fight against cancer, which this year alone will afflict an estimated 650,000 Americans and kill more than 350,000. The older techniques???surgery, radiation and chemotherapy (drug treatments)?have been used successfully in bringing some cancers under control. But surgery usually results in unsightly and handicapping mutilation, radiation can destroy healthy as well as cancerous tissue, and chemotherapy produces unpleasant and dangerous side effects. Immunotherapy, which so far seems to have...
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