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...still die from diarrheal complications, including 1.9 million children under 5, or 17% of the estimated 11 million deaths in that age group. These deaths are largely preventable and unnecessary. "We have the tools to really reduce deaths," says Olivier Fontaine, a diarrheal disease expert at the WHO in Geneva, Switzerland. "The cost of this intervention is minimal. Yet we can't get it to every child that needs it." Why not? Because crowded cities and remote areas of poor countries often don't have adequate health facilities nearby; because many parents of young children never learn how to make...
...legitimized torture as a means of obtaining information. It left the President in charge of filling in the details of what the allowable methods should be. The clearest limit to what might be done was actually not so clear. The new methods could not constitute "grave breaches" of the Geneva Conventions. But after all the huffing and puffing from Republican Senators John McCain, John Warner and Lindsey Graham, the Executive Branch kept control over what exactly could happen to an "enemy combatant." It was allowed to decide who an enemy combatant might be. The package of measures widened the definition...
...listed the elimination of habeas corpus review for non-U.S. citizen detainees as one of its key objections. The new legislation, according to the letter, would effectively allow President George W. Bush to detain individuals indefinitely, give Bush almost sole authority to interpret the international standards of the Geneva Conventions, and arbitrate the permissibility of certain prisoner treatments or interrogative techniques...
...last week. [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] The President The Senators The Detainees What They Won The CIA can continue interrogating suspected terrorists in secret jails, with interrogators given legal protection. Nixed: Bush's bid to formally reinterpret the Geneva Conventions to allow interrogation techniques some view as inhumane. Prisoners and their lawyers will be able to see edited versions of the classified evidence to be used against them. What They Lost Bush agreed to make public some details about the program's tactics, giving Congress and citizens a chance to object. The Senators...
...three Republican senators who opposed a White House version of the bill - Senators John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and John Warner of Virginia - said the just-announced compromise with the White House met their fundamental requirements by first leaving the provisions of the Geneva Conventions untouched and second, by guaranteeing prisoners facing military tribunals basic rights and fairness. The Bush Administration had favored a watering down of some of those rights...