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...Animals are surrogates for humans. The basic reason for animal trials is to determine two issues before any new compound is introduced into a human: safety and efficacy, whether a compound is safe for human ingestion and also whether or not a product works for its intended purpose. Really that process begins way before we get to animals. But at some point in the process it is critical to understand how a compound, let's say, a hypertension medication, works in a whole living system. You can't just determine how it works on blood pressure or the heart...
...along the wings in the first half, but the Romanians never panicked, maintaining their compact, fallback defense. Against the run of play Romania went ahead when Adrian Mutu anticipated Gianluca Zambrotta's back pass and blew a shot past Gianluigi Buffon in the 55th minute. Then Romania made the basic mistake of relaxing after scoring a goal. A minute later, Christian Panucci converted a corner kick at the far post to knot the score. Mutu could have won the game when the Romanians were awarded a penalty kick, but Buffon made a fabulous hand-to-foot save that preserved...
...rule of law. We need to depoliticize the security institutions and national institutions, which have been so militarized and politicized. We need to fix the economy by restoring macroeconomic stability in the country and reconstruction in the country. For that we need international support. We need to restore basic services: schools, hospitals ... We need to restore our productivity of the land. We need to restore Zimbabwe again as part of the family of nations, not as a pariah state. So there is a plan, we have a plan. One does not underestimate the challenges, but that does not mean...
...mother with a machete. And so on. These stories are so frightening and upsetting, and offer so little in the way of closure or consolation, that you wonder what the point is of subjecting yourself to them--they exist at the border between realism and snuff. There's a basic sense that art is supposed to make of the world that Say You're One of Them--gorgeously written as it is--does not. You could read it, but why? Kiss your family, enjoy a hot shower, and donate the price of a hardcover book to charity instead...
...lawyers representing prisoners at Guantánamo. "Everyone who believes that America is a country devoted to the rule of law should celebrate because this ruling says that the Executive needs to be accountable to a neutral judicial forum in its decisions to imprison people - and that is the basic restraint on tyranny that animated the American Revolution...