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...Hood, Texas, last week, with a clean shave and a solemn face. A day earlier, President George W. Bush's choice for Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, who played a large role in orchestrating, if not actually drafting, a change in the Administration's rules on torture, was asked to explain himself before the Senators of the Judiciary Committee who are considering his nomination. Three years after 9/11, the question remains: How did we end up abusing prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and the U.S. naval base at Guant??namo Bay, Cuba--almost 20 inmate deaths are being investigated--and what...
...number of insurgents was more like 200,000 - in other words, greater than the number of troops the U.S. has in Iraq. And U.S. military officials and analysts have long-since conceded that most of the insurgents are Sunni Iraqis rather than foreigners. Shahwani's numbers may also explain why an operation such as the recapture of Fallujah, in which the U.S. military claimed to have killed around 1,000 insurgents and detained a further 2,000, does not appear to have turned the tide...
...invention seems to be a stand-alone technology, and some even go so far as to be designed to be disposable. As wonderful as it may be to have plastic tattoos on my iPod or have a portable, cloudlike meeting space, I can't help wondering how I will explain to my grandchildren that it was this kind of thinking that filled the world's landfills and depleted our limited resources. Brian A. Pille Ann Arbor, Michigan...
...higher power must be responsible for the body's creation as well as the varying outcomes (good and bad) we see after treatment of seemingly similar diseases. The longer I practice medicine, the more I believe in the greatness of God. The universe and our existence may be explained by laws of physics, but only up to a point. There will always be a limit to what physicists can explain with a formula. They, too, may become more religious with time. Talat Chughtai, M.D. Toronto...
Gladwell's real genius is as a storyteller. He's like an omniscient, many-armed Hindu god of anecdotes: he plucks them from every imaginable field of human endeavor. The art historian who can instantly spot a forgery that fooled a battery of scientific tests but can't explain why. The ornithologist can identify at 200 yards an exotic bird he's never seen in flight before. The psychologist who has catalogued the 10,000 expressions of which the human face is capable. Gladwell hangs with superstar car salesmen and emergency-room cardiologists, badass battlefield commanders and improv-comedy troupes...