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...rights to such an extent that in some categories the country is on a par with Cuba. The report cites the indefinite imprisonment of 300 men captured in Afghanistan at Camp X-Ray as an example of violation of human rights and condemned the detention without recourse to the normal legal process of more than 1,100 foreign nationals since Sept. 11. COLOMBIA Time to Talk Having won the election outright in the first round, President-elect Alvaro Uribe pledged to commit men and money to a crackdown on the drug trade. Uribe won 53% of the vote and promised...
...says John Szuch, founder of emo label Deep Elm Records, based in Charlotte, N.C. "Some of it's real accessible; some of it's not. Some of it's 10 minutes long and filled with all kinds of loud-soft dynamics, and some of it's just kind of normal." Carrabba puts it more succinctly: "I have no idea what...
...beyond the level of the second twin, to what is known as mild cognitive impairment, and some all the way to dementia, the most common form of which is Alzheimer's. But most of us won't--and need not. "People used to think that senility was a normal part of aging," says Small, a professor of psychiatry and aging at the University of California, Los Angeles. "Now we see it's a disease. If we all lived long enough, we'd all get Alzheimer's disease if we did nothing about it." The good news: we can do something...
...Spider-Man is one of us, dressed up as a hero. Says Jeff Ayers, manager of New York City's Forbidden Planet comics store: "Batman's a millionaire, Superman's an alien, and Wonder Woman's an Amazon goddess. Most superheroes are foreign to us, but Spider-Man is normal and flawed...
...sees the broader market avoiding that fate yet delivering subpar returns for the next few years. He and others are concerned that many stocks remain expensive relative to earnings. The S&P 500 trades at 28 times last year's earnings. A multiple of 18 to 20 would be normal coming out of a recession. Investors normally focus on future earnings. But those are tough to estimate in this choppy recovery, and it doesn't help that analysts and accountants are no longer trustworthy as guides...