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...fact, the antiprotons that Gabrielse studies are 10 orders of magnitude lower in energy than the antiprotons produced in Geneva, the only source of antiprotons in the world...
...letter asks Congress to examine the “accountability for human rights violations” in Iraq. The letter cites current international humanitarian laws that authors say are being violated in Iraq, including the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions and the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The letter said that though executive branch officials have admitted that interrogation methods used in Iraq may have violated international and domestic law, the prosecution of lower level personnel has been insufficient...
...ingredients and might contain toxic substances. These days, drug companies and international health organization officials are alarmed by the health threat posed by the increasing availability of fake drugs pouring out of illegal factories, mostly in China and India. According to Dr. Harvey Bale Jr., director general of the Geneva-based International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations (IFPMA), trafficking in counterfeit medicines is a $3 billion-$6 billion industry-and as the price of genuine drugs continues to climb, some say the problem is bound to increase, too. "It's absolutely way worse than reported," says Joseph Simone, a partner...
...British official, "Bush will have to eat some humble pie." One way would be to throw himself into a more obviously evenhanded push to broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians. And if Bush really wanted to turn heads, he could declare that the U.S. will strictly honor the Geneva conventions in its international network of prisons, and even recognize the international criminal court, where war crimes can be prosecuted and which 24 out of 25 E.U. countries have joined. Europe could contribute to a thaw by backing the U.N. resolution Washington is advancing to lay out lines of authority...
...Iraq adopted some of Miller's suggestions last fall as military-intelligence officers took charge of a section of Abu Ghraib. MPs were told to help interrogators "set the conditions." Sanchez tweaked some of Miller's suggestions because Iraqi prisoners, unlike those at Guantanamo, are covered by the Geneva Conventions. The Pentagon says the more severe tactics it allowed--like putting prisoners into stressful positions--were never officially used...