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...Stanford, most of the students graduate in five years. Most students take a year to do some research, either clinical research or basic science research. So I took a year to do some basic science research and orthopedic surgery. The second year, the reason I'm graduating in six instead of five with most of my classmates, is that I'm writing a second novel. The first one was really kind of crammed in around the corners of my studies and then my lab work. The second one I needed to take this chunk of time to work...
...meantime, however, there has been a wave of TV cop shows, in the CSI and Law & Order molds, that may have reached viewers' saturation point. And in the past few years, broadcast and basic-cable networks have gradually introduced flawed, even criminal protagonists to all kinds of shows: the antiheroes of FX's The Shield, Nip/Tuck and Rescue Me; the cruelly sarcastic doctor on House; and the castaways of Lost, who include a heroin addict, a torturer and several killers. (Fox's Prison Break is also set among criminals, although it's about a wrongfully imprisoned man and the brother...
...Life Inside Gitmo" [March 13] reported that Mohammed al-Qahtani, the Saudi accused of being the so-called 20th hijacker on 9/11, was coerced into confessing his ties to al-Qaeda. When we obtain information from prisoners by denying them basic human rights, then we are no better than the very organizations we are fighting. Against whom will the abusive interrogation techniques be used next--hardened criminals, drug dealers and political activists...
...Basic curiosity and gumption, abundant in less prestigious agencies such as Finance or Customs, eluded the dfat megastars. Cables, statements, e-mails and memos tumbling out of the Cole Inquiry do not inspire confidence in dfat; they certainly don't justify Downer's claim of "characteristic diligence" in performing his duties. Nor do they suggest open government. "I don't think any government in Australian corporate history has been more transparent and more determined to get to the truth than we've been," Downer said of the government's willingness to cooperate with the Cole Inquiry and a U.N. commission...
...straight away the stain change from red to pale gray as the pH swaps over and the pigment starts to break down and the wine loses its staining ability." Lush hopes the book will help others see cleaning crises the way she does: as puzzles. "It's basic chemistry," she says. "The building blocks of everything around you are pretty simple. You just need to look at things and question how they work." And if you don't know, "Experiment...