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...Joyce T. Bowden gave up everything—cloistering herself for seven years in Montana’s mountains and forgoing her family and hometown—so that, by the age at which some are reaching the apex of their careers, she could be a rookie...
...Explore the photo gallery of Rix’s “friends” and you’ll find what is no less than Earth’s Hall of Fame. No, I’m not talking about the photos of Chris Rix with Coach Bobby Bowden. Instead, Rix is inexplicably featured with the following luminaries: Mark Cuban, Michael Bolton (with a drink conspicuously Photoshopped out of Mr. Bolton’s hand), Burt Reynolds, David Robinson, Carrot Top and Deion Sanders...
...answer is yes--sometimes--but not without great risk. Over the years, the U.S. government has spent a lot of time searching for a "truth serum," experimenting with electroshock and LSD without success. "Drugs in particular held out the highest hope," says Mark Bowden, who wrote a landmark story about interrogation in the October 2003 Atlantic Monthly. "But the human mind is more complex than that. There's no magic bullet." Over time, most intelligence professionals have settled on tools in the torture lite category. The FBI's methods fall on the genteel end of the spectrum. "Convicted felons have...
...pictures streaming out of Iraq suggest to some that the U.S. has adopted a culture of commonplace coercion. "If the Army is doing this and all evidence suggests it has become widespread, then there is a very serious problem with the U.S. military and its methods," says Bowden, who advocates coercion in rare cases only. "They can lay out a 50-point or 2,000-point matrix to try to draw a line, and they will never succeed because there is no way to draw a line between coercion and torture...
...Carb Smoothies. There is Low-Carb Dieting for Dummies as well as The Complete Idiot's Guide to Low-Carb Meals. It was only a matter of time before a book came along to compare the low-carb diet books. When it did, in mid-January, Jonny Bowden's Living the Low Carb Life briefly displaced The Da Vinci Code as the best-selling title on BarnesandNoble.com...