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Daniel said that the best thing people can do to help the case is spread awareness—especially to people living in Southern California—and keep an eye out for either Donna or Burgess...
...nurses were first arrested back in 1999, after doctors found that the AIDS virus had spread to children at a hospital in Libya's second largest city of Benghazi. Despite international appeals for the medics' release, they were sentenced to death by firing squad in 2004. Appeals ended this week with the upholding of the sentence, an apparent technicality. The case now moves to the country's top legal body, which will have the option to annul the charges or, more likely, some observers say, to commute the sentence, which would allow the nurses (and one Palestinian doctor...
...will not be a victory for the truth: the nurses themselves may not be exonerated, even though two of the world's leading AIDS specialists investigated the case and concluded that the disease was spread not by the nurses - or by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, as Libyan prosecutors originally charged - but by poor hygiene at the government-run hospitals. Some of the children were infected before the nurses even arrived. Critics have charged that Gaddafi's government needed a scapegoat for a scandal that otherwise would have been laid at his door. The new deal is unlikely to disabuse...
...generation of Carnoustie golfers in the late 19th century happened upon the innovation by chance, then painstakingly improved it. It was a triumph of inductive reasoning over deductive, of scientific method over pure logic. Like the Enlightenment itself, this powerful new knowledge was destined to spread. Between 1898 and 1930, about 300 professional golfers left Carnoustie to teach the distinctive swing at clubs in North America - quite a feat for a town that then had a population of only...
...Gore was being characteristically hyperbolic when he claimed the concerts could reach up to 2 billion people on the Internet - sure, and so could this story - the sheer size and spread of the events meant that for a day at least, climate change (or, the rock concerts it has prompted) dominated headlines across the world. But would the Earth have been better off if we all stayed home and did nothing, literally? "That's a fair thought," Linkin Park guitarist Brad Delson told TIME before his band's Tokyo show. "It's also a cynical one." He's right...