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...nothing like an outbreak of Ebola virus to guarantee screaming headlines. That's largely due to the mid-1990s bestseller The Hot Zone, which described the disease's horrifying course in gruesome detail, leaving many readers to believe that Ebola posed a looming threat to human existence. The truth is, however, that since the first recorded human cases in the 1970s, only a few hundred people have died from it. Of all the diseases you need to be afraid of, Ebola is near the bottom of the list...
...behind the congressional vote on an Iraq spending bill that includes withdrawal dates--and the inevitable Bush veto of that bill--arose a deeper debate about truth and its consequences. David Petraeus, the American commander in Iraq, briefed lawmakers on his progress after nine U.S. paratroopers died in one of the deadliest ground assaults of the war. Was that evidence that the new strategy was doomed, or only that it was dangerous, bringing soldiers into forward outposts to engage the enemy? Or both...
Kevin, who had served in the same platoon, recoiled at the "calculated lies," including a Silver Star awarded his brother because the Army needed a hero as much as it feared a scandal. It was weeks before the Tillmans learned the truth. "We've all been betrayed," Pat's mother Mary Tillman said. "We never thought they would use him the way they...
Lynch and Tillman served with honor, but their honor too was a victim of friendly fire. "The truth in war is not always easy," Lynch declared and then paid homage to all who have served, and died, like the best friend she lost that day when her underarmored convoy went astray. "The truth is always more heroic than the hype." Just less politically convenient...
Rocker Sheryl Crow and An Inconvenient Truth producer Laurie David sparred over climate change with Karl Rove at a D.C. dinner. At one point, they claim, the Bush adviser snapped, "Don't touch me." Shocked at the unthinkable rebuff, the pair wrote on THE HUFFINGTON POST, "How hardened and removed from reality must a person be to refuse to be touched by Sheryl Crow?" SCORE...