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...strange case of Donald Rumsfeld. Here was a flaming exception to the Bush family code of honor. Rumsfeld was an ancient rival of Bush the Elder who became Secretary of Defense, Woodward implies, because of a mild Oedipal spasm: the Younger wanted to prove the Elder was wrong about the guy. How to explain the current President's continuing, suicidal loyalty to the architect of the Iraq debacle, even after Laura Bush and then chief of staff Andrew Card lobbied Bush to replace Rumsfeld in 2004? It's a perfect Freudian boggle: if he dumps Rumsfeld, isn't George...
...field. We were essentially using people to experiment on. But we were pushed to the wall. We had no choice." Using lay people to administer the treatment while health workers replenished supplies was controversial. Doctors had long assumed that, in untrained hands, rehydration solution might be prepared in the wrong concentration and kill more patients than it saved...
...order to safeguard local jobs. It's a policy popular with politicians and unions, but one that eats up hoards of cash and causes logistical headaches as half-finished parts of aircraft are shuttled across Europe. The wiring snafus are a hair-raising example of what can go wrong with this system. Airbus salesmen were so eager to win orders for the A380 that they offered to customize the interiors. Bespoke tailoring might be good business on London's Savile Row, but it's a huge complication for heavy manufacturing. And the task was made harder by duplication. Airbus facilities...
...wrote the show for Alec Baldwin. What's your favorite Alec Baldwin SNL moment? The one where he's a soap actor and they're pronouncing all the medical terms wrong. "I'm glad to tell you that your tumor is benig...
...Israelis thought their siege of Gaza might break Palestinian support for Hamas, they were wrong. It has only made Palestinians angrier and more desperate. Says Gaza resident Omar Shabani, an economist: "My kids ask me why the Israelis are doing this to us, and I can't answer them. I don't want to increase their hatred toward Israel, but the truth is, the Israelis are doing everything to make us hate them...