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Along the Iraqi front, all units have been put on full alert. Just north of the Iraqi-held oil city of Kirkuk, a side road likely to be used by U.S. combat troops is being buttressed with Iraqi tanks, "all camouflaged so only the gun barrels are obvious," says an officer at a nearby Kurdish gun position. In this district around Qurtan Jukoy, the Iraqis have closed many of the smaller roads used by civilians passing between the lines. For more than 10 days, Iraqi engineers have been gouging deep trenches to slow the approach of soldiers...
...share price of German pharmaceuticals titan Bayer AG slid 26% last week - at one point touching a 10-year low. The reason: lawyers claimed to produce a "smoking gun" in their lawsuit against the company's American arm over the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipobay (also known as Baycol). Bayer voluntarily withdrew the drug from the market in August 2001, when it was linked to rhabdomyolysis, a muscle-destroying condition that can be fatal. But attorneys last week produced excerpts from correspondence between executives at Bayer and GlaxoSmithKline from 1997, which warned that "simple and safe no longer appears...
BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE. Michael Moore’s quintessential documentary on red-neck Americana and its political basis has turned more heads in curiosity than a gun show in Harvard Square would. Criticized for its self-indulgence and questionable objectivity, Bowling for Columbine is nonetheless a dazzling example of the power of politically charged cinema. Probably the most talked-about film of the year, Columbine effectively condenses nearly a decade of American history into a digestible, moving meditation on the sources of American gun violence. That’s no small feat. Bowling for Columbine screens...
...reading against the clock now,” she says, but you can hear the amusement in her voice. “I have a gun to my head...
...Search for the Smoking Gun...