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...Major General Geoffrey Miller--commandant at Guantánamo Bay and a top adviser on interrogations at Abu Ghraib-- do wrong? No, says a new report by Lieut. General Stanley Green, the Army Inspector General (IG), that TIME obtained last week. An investigation recommended last summer that Miller be reprimanded for poor oversight of a high-value prisoner at Gitmo. But Green told TIME that the evidence is not there to back charges against Miller of dereliction and lying to Congress about his role in the scandal. The report concludes that at Gitmo Miller was unaware a canine had been used...
Green, the Army IG, says that people need in the abuse-scandal investigations to find a "donkey to pin the tail on." But he insists "Miller is not the one." Which leaves the question...
GREGG MILLER, on winning the Ig Nobel Prize for Medicine from humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research. He created fake testicles that have been implanted in some 150,000 neutered animals...
...Each Ig Nobel winner was accompanied by an irreverent slide show detailing animated drawings of the recipients’ research, 24/7 lectures—in which famous thinkers explained their field of research in 24 seconds and then in 7 words geared towards the average audience members—and other humorous non sequiturs...
...addition to former Ig Nobel recipients, past Nobel laureates attended the event, including Dudley Herschbach (Chemistry ’86), Sheldon Glashow (Physics ’79), and Robert Wilson (Physics...