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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...harming adventurer, very good looking, well bred and an excellent dancer". He lived at 18 Bruton Street in Mayfair, London (a prestigious address).... ...ican press, in contrast, provided extensive coverage of the developing romance. At first, the King did not wish to marry Simpson, merely to make... ...by the British government to address the British people and the Empire through the BBC. The government's constitutional experts wrote: "If the ... ... time when this happened in English history was when Charles I raised His Standard at the beginning of the Civil War on 22 August 1642." Edward... ...I suspected her of having an affair with a leading Nazi and spied on her. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/uk/2706889.stm Abraham Abraham, th... ...pected her of having an affair with a leading Nazi and spied on her. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/uk/2706889.stm Abraham Abraham, the son... ...ttp://dmoz.org/Health/Addictions/Substance_Abuse/Tobacco/Resear ch/ http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=571&ncid=751 &e=3&u=/nm/20030... ...is covered with hair-like pelt, the better to simulate a dead animal. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/weird/az/pr.shtml http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci... ... to simulate a dead animal. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/weird/az/pr.shtml http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2566023.stm Decapitation The bra...

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Class Heroes: A Class Apart

By: Stephen Henning

...td www.elucidox.com Cover design Andrew Clarke www.clarke-design.co.uk For more news on the Class Heroes series, see www.classheroes.com Ta... ........................................................... 18 Chapter 3 – Breaking News................................................... 31 Chapter ... ...er hospital bed. She tried to read the article about her on the 24/7 Interactive News website, but her eyes kept flicking nervously to the door of h... ...another video report, but this one was from three hours ago. Mystery Death Dive at Bomb Survivors’ Hospital 4 Bosses refuse to confirm whether... ...ses refuse to confirm whether a teenage boy has fallen out of 36th-storey window at Brent Valley General Sam watched the video, her heart in her mou... ...her heart in her mouth. The reporter was standing outside the hospital, pointing at fragments of glass on the ground and a broken window at the top ... ...her. “Oh, not you. I didn’t mean you. I meant the others, and that.” “Like the BBC? I know the feeling. They’re so boring, aren’t they? ITV are as... ...no remote control either. A nurse had switched the set on for her and left it on BBC 1, so she was stuck with horse racing. Fortunately her phone wa... ...ht Jasmin, and then realised how amusing ‘Glennis and Dennis’ sounded. “Are you BBC?” asked Mrs Randerson keenly. Jasmin could feel her throat thic...

...while on a school trip. Many of their friends are killed. When the twins wake up in hospital, their lives have changed forever.The doctors are amazed at the speed with which James and Sam recover from their injuries and, when the twins begin to exhibit extraordinary powers, it is obvious that something incredible has happened.As James and Sam attempt to overcome their fear...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

... 2. The Gift of Memory For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. 3. ... ...nclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books. At eighty-nine, Brad Bradford brings a long lifetime of experience in newsp... .... At eighty-nine, Brad Bradford brings a long lifetime of experience in newspapers during the hot-metal-type era and in the initial transition to ... ...metal-type era and in the initial transition to digital phototypesetting. At sixty-four, I bring another full lifetime lived both at that exact momen... ...an-computer interfaces in 1973 led to my appointment as adjunct professor at Benedictine University, where I built the world‘s first electronic libra... ...send seamless sound waves in rapid-fire coordination. We can do that about ten times faster than any sounds-within-sounds that chimpanzees make. Th... ...ine diet.‖ In 2009, Charles Weatherby wrote in Vital Choices, an online newsletter: ―More recent research indicates that some early human ancestor... ... One of his first moves was to organize the Mongol military into units of ten, one hundred, one thousand, and ten thousand. He broke up the old trib... ...buy up every 21 When a BBC radio show asked listeners to choose ―the British Person of the Millenn...

...are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge that filled the Black Sea and scatter its language wes...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...signed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of an open competition at www.worth1000.com. Copyright © 2008 by Jonathan Zittrain. All rights r... ...al-Share Alike 3.0 License. It can be accessed through the author’s Web site at http://www.jz.org. Set in Adobe Garamond type by The Composing Room of... ...ot the first time Steve Jobs had launched a revolution. Thirty years earlier, at the First West Coast Computer Faire in nearly the same spot, the twent... ...y a call to a more generic “information service” for interactive weather and news. The development of this capability illustrates the relationships am... ...bscription could pursue a variety of pastimes 8 —reading an Associated Press news feed, chatting in typed sentences with other CompuServe subscribers ... ...ortant applications for online consumer services had already been in- vented—news, weather, bulletin boards, chat, e-mail, and the rudiments of shoppi... ...ept. 27, 2007, 19:01); Jane Wake- field, Apple iPhone W arning Proves T rue, BBC N, Sept. 28, 2007, http://news .bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7017660 ... ... sian crime organizations). 53.Tim Weber, Criminals ‘May Overwhelm the Web,’ BBC N, Jan. 25, 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6298641.stm.... ...otnet computers in the United States. See FBI T ries to Fight Zombie Hordes, BBC N, June 14, 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6752853.st...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...orable views of Americans. "People around the world embrace things American and, at the same time, decry U.S. influence on their societies. Simil... ...ow base. The crux may be that the USA maintains one set of sanctimonious standards at home while egregiously and nonchalantly flouting them far and... ...aking bones when faced with opposition and ignoring the very edicts it promulgates at its convenience. Its soldiers and peacekeepers, its bankers a... ...lanced Chinese Communist party. In an interview he granted to Xinhua, the Chinese news agency, last week, Shen Jiru, chief of the Division of Int... ...or knowledge. Velvet hands couched in iron gloves, ignorance disguised by economic newspeak, geostrategic interests masquerading as forms of govern... ...ing old alliances and constructing new bridges. According to Interfax, the Russian news agency, yesterday, Russia has made yet another payment of $... ...nt with Baghdad to rehabilitate some of its crumbling oil fields. According to the BBC, Lukoil also inked unusually favorable production-sharing ag... ... need also be mentioned." Still, the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, and the BBC have all reported recently that the streets of Baghdad are t... ...to be. Infant mortality figures are suspect as are most other Iraqi statistics. The BBC interviewed an Iraqi defector whose two year old daughter wa...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

... 2. The Gift of Memory For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. 3. ... ...nclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books. At eighty-nine, Brad Bradford brings a long lifetime of experience in newsp... .... At eighty-nine, Brad Bradford brings a long lifetime of experience in newspapers during the hot-metal-type era and in the initial transition to ... ...metal-type era and in the initial transition to digital phototypesetting. At sixty-four, I bring another full lifetime lived both at that exact momen... ...an-computer interfaces in 1973 led to my appointment as adjunct professor at Benedictine University, where I built the world‘s first electronic libra... ...send seamless sound waves in rapid-fire coordination. We can do that about ten times faster than any sounds-within-sounds that chimpanzees make. Th... ...eline diet.‖ In 2009, Charles Weatherby wrote in Vital Choices, an online newsletter: ―More recent research indicates that some early human ancestor... ... One of his first moves was to organize the Mongol military into units of ten, one hundred, one thousand, and ten thousand. He broke up the old trib... ...one to read. 21 When a BBC radio show asked listeners to choose ―the British Person of the Millenn...

...readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books. At sixty-four, I bring another full lifetime lived both at that exact moment where my experiences could straddle working in print shops and in the current digital eBook era.. My degree in human-computer interfaces in 1973 l...

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The Vatican Conspiracy

By: Jonathan Cross

...ow moving ocean wave; it pointed a milky white semblance of a finger directly at his chest and then smoothly entered into Francis’ heart. Transfix... ...ed and looked out the window, which was 5 J.Cross/Artemis slightly ajar, at two white doves sitting on the ledge, cooing. “I have a special req... ...lected Pope was an unknown American Cardinal; the mostly Italian crowd stared at each other in disbelief. Later, when the other Cardinals were aske... ...uzzy about the actual voting. The next day the Italian 8 J.Cross/Artemis newspapers ran bold headlines declaring the end of the Catholic Church ... ... the caption read. The article went on to state that a Susan Aimes, a Society news reporter, asked her what she thought about the color of the Blue ... ...at must be protected. They all agreed, including the surviving teenagers. The newspaper reported only that six teenagers had died in an unfortunate ... ...snifter. The only light in the room came from the television, which was on the BBC channel. The words, 'A Live Report' flashed on the screen. Brand n... ... been too busy preparing for war," he said sarcastically. "It's all over the BBC and CNN. The Chinese are attacking any and all drug installations.... ...Make our country safe' echoed throughout the nation. In contrast, CNN and the BBC showed thousands of Muslims across the world in jubilant celebrati...

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Today's Take on Einstein's Relativity

By: Homer B. Titon and Florentin Smarandache

... TODAY’S TAKE ON EINSTEIN’S RELATIVITY PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE AT PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE – EAST CAMPUS February 18, 2005 ... ...N'S RELATIVITY PREFACE Non Sequiturs in Relativity Four in number at this point Dr. Smith of "Lost in Space" had a knack of easing out of ... ...The banjo symbolizes how plucking a taut string causes the string to vibrate at its resonant frequency just as an electric spark causes space to "vib... ...superluminary light", ...Photonics Spectra, Physics Today, various recent news items 17 Why You Can't Exceed the Speed of Light Jim Malm... ...g/TIPTOP/FORUM/BOOKS. 12. Rincon, Paul, Teleportation breakthrough made, BBC News Online, 2004/06/16. 13. Rincon, Paul, Teleportation goes lo... ...PTOP/FORUM/BOOKS. 12. Rincon, Paul, Teleportation breakthrough made, BBC News Online, 2004/06/16. 13. Rincon, Paul, Teleportation goes long d... ...Online, 2004/06/16. 13. Rincon, Paul, Teleportation goes long distance, BBC News Online, 2004/08/18. 14. Russo, Felice, “Faster than Light?”... ...ne, 2004/06/16. 13. Rincon, Paul, Teleportation goes long distance, BBC News Online, 2004/08/18. 14. Russo, Felice, “Faster than Light?”, h... ...luminal.html 27. Whitehouse, Dr. David, Australian teleport breakthrough, BBC News Online, 2002/06/17. 28. Wright, Jason, “Superluminals and th...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...tanding. For instance: what can you understand about an orange by looking at it through a microscope? The answer is; very little. But if you p... ... figuring things out, continually wondering about things, continually looking at things in new ways, continually experiencing new things, continuall... ...inity. 1: Something caused it to explode. It did not explode for no reason at all. It did not explode by magic. In order for it to explode, the... ... like all of the history of civilized humans so far? Sound a bit like all the news media reports of crises and disasters so far? What these scienti... ...less. That way, the media can sell even more meaningless trivia and call it ‘news’. Any person who bothers to notice; can see how the news has beco... ...n the past is of little importance. A perfect example of this today is called News… mostly sensational pieces of information are presented in a comp... ...enson’s Long John Silver was given a new life as a fictional character: on the BBC in the 1950’s. But not as he was shown to be in the book. Instea... ...s and the Alternative The villain of Stevenson’s book becomes the hero of BBC television. Evil is portrayed as good. Evil is whitewashed over ... ...il is hidden and given a reversed name and a reversed meaning, Why did the BBC do this? Because Historically: he is actually less evil than the...

...of civilization. 6: The effect of civilization upon humans. 7: Death, the existence of evil and its effect on humans. Offered as a free E-book at: http://thepathofsplitness.com/ ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... 5 Meeting Dr. Chan —―Good morning gentlemen. I want to introduce you to Dr. Chuck Chan. He is a professor of social psychology at our... ...call me Chuck. I know you have spent some time with Dr. Wang in Kino. She is a delightful lady. Wanda and I go way back. We got our doctorates at the... ...at your alma mater Commander. Of course I was in psychology and she was in philosophy but we knew each other socially. Then I got a ‗post doc‘ at Sta... ...ropriate set of values we can have healthier and happier citizens and a more nourishing society—then we can live more positively. ―With ten bi... ...r than logical it could be expected. A more sensible act of revenge would have been to kill the cartoonist or perhaps stop buying the Danish newspa... ...wer must have its victims. ―In the case of the cartoons, the Western press defended freedom of the press—which is often valued by the newsme... ...olence as the main feature, but the fact that so many are experiencing meaningless time-killing pastimes. We know that reading has decreased. Newspa... .... 2008 2. Zimbardo, PG. The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. Random House. 2008. Also: Interview with Dr. Lombardo on BBC Ha... ...Inc.;Copyright 1970 by Abraham H. Maslow. 6a Sura 9:73; see also 9:123 and 4:74-78 7. Center for Disease Control study 2008 7a Hard Talk, BBC Ap...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...ty or obligation exist. IB. The Right to be Born The right to be born crystallizes at the moment of voluntary and intentional fertilization. If a w... ...'s Life Maintained Does one have the right to maintain one's life and prolong them at other people's expense? Does one have the right to use other ... ...s and no. No one has a right to sustain his or her life, maintain, or prolong them at another INDIVIDUAL's expense (no matter how minimal and insig... ...igest the few sectors hitherto left untouched. To say the least, these are not good news. But we libertarians - proponents of both individual freedo... ...hat we are commemorating, would we still drink to it if we were to receive some bad news about our health and imminent demise? Not likely. But why?... ...phagy) is an age- old tradition that, judging by a constant stream of flabbergasted news reports, is far from extinct. Much- debated indications exis... ...or, a channel, a voice, and the very depth of our souls. Home On June 9, 2005 the BBC reported about an unusual project underway in Sheffield (in ... ...ically speaking, passionate love closely imitates substance abuse. Appearing in the BBC series Body Hits on December 4, 2002 Dr. John Marsden, the h... ...sed model of falling in love. Each stage involves a distinct set of chemicals. The BBC summed it up succinctly and sensationally: "Events occurrin...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...ty or obligation exist. IB. The Right to be Born The right to be born crystallizes at the moment of voluntary and intentional fertilization. If a w... ...'s Life Maintained Does one have the right to maintain one's life and prolong them at other people's expense? Does one have the right to use other ... ...s and no. No one has a right to sustain his or her life, maintain, or prolong them at another INDIVIDUAL's expense (no matter how minimal and insig... ...igest the few sectors hitherto left untouched. To say the least, these are not good news. But we libertarians - proponents of both individual freedo... ...hat we are commemorating, would we still drink to it if we were to receive some bad news about our health and imminent demise? Not likely. But why?... ...phagy) is an age- old tradition that, judging by a constant stream of flabbergasted news reports, is far from extinct. Much- debated indications exis... ...or, a channel, a voice, and the very depth of our souls. Home On June 9, 2005 the BBC reported about an unusual project underway in Sheffield (in ... ...ically speaking, passionate love closely imitates substance abuse. Appearing in the BBC series Body Hits on December 4, 2002 Dr. John Marsden, the h... ...sed model of falling in love. Each stage involves a distinct set of chemicals. The BBC summed it up succinctly and sensationally: "Events occurrin...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...ared by the members of the group and, most important, on hate and contempt directed at an "enemy". The latter is, almost invariably, the physical o... ...own and his gun slung across his left elbow" Mihail Chakov, who was nearby Delcev at the moment of his death, quoted in "Balkan Ghosts" by Robert ... ...intable..." A.G. Hales reporting about the Illinden Uprising in the London "Daily News" of October 21, 1903 "The Internal Macedonian Revolutio... ...ulgaria in the 1878 Treaty of San Stefano unwillingly, following a terminal defeat at the hands of a wrathful Russian army. The newly re-invented n... ... vivendi of mutual paralysis in the Balkan with Russia as early as 1897. It lasted ten years in which only Austria and Russia stood still but histo... ...reat Serbian people. Return The Insurgents and the Swastika "Even going back ten years it was easy to see something gripping Yugoslavia by th... ...be, the KLA became sufficiently self-assured and popular to advertise itself on the BBC as responsible for some of the clashes - a rite of passage ... ...ng directorates, offices and officers, codes and procedures, a radio station and a news agency, an electronic communications interception unit, a w... ...e reactions to their heinous deeds. Their cosmic significance is daily enhanced by newspaper headlines, ever increasing bounties, admiring imitator...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Sea... ... ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI as told to Jacqueline Slow Art ... ...g allowed her guests to sleep late and arranged to meet Commander Gulliver at one o’clock. She knew his jet lag was slowing him up, he was still lagg... ...iss her. Her death from breast cancer was the low point in my life. After ten years I‘m still not over it. I just bury myself in work to try to forge... ... 19 Should every rule be universal—never changing through history? The Ten Commandments are such a universal moral code. What if Hitler were your... ...heir time playing video poker is more important than watching the evening news or reading a newspaper?‖ --―There‘s no question that if we la... ...putting them in contact with their sexuality. When it was released in the newspapers she seemed to be a minority of one. But she showed that there i... ...nd 33% didn‘t have an opinion. The survey was conducted by Norway‘s major newspaper, (22) The newspaper does the survey 82 every two years. The ... ...esented on the 6 o‘clock news in New York as verifiable as that put on the BBC in London. Is the fact that the electric light generally comes on whe...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...Covert Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “P... ... of September 11 278 9.2 September 11, 2001 285 9.3 Emergency Response at the Pentagon 311 9.4 Analysis 315 vi Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM ... ...1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page vi 10. WARTIME 325 10.1 Immediate Responses at Home 326 10.2 Planning for War 330 10.3 “Phase Two” and the Question... ...e United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected lea... ... million pages of documents and interviewed more than 1,200 individuals in ten countries. This included nearly every senior official from the current ... ...here in the world in more than 30 years, and never in the United States.As news of the hijackings filtered through the FAA and the airlines, it does n... ...ts.They enabled the passengers to gain critical information, including the news that two aircraft had slammed into the World Trade Center. 77 At 9:39,... ...- west. Six, southwest of the White House, deviating away.” This startling news prompted the mission crew commander at NEADS to take immediate control... ...er, he was refused entry. Secretary of Defense interview with David Frost (BBC), June 27, 2004, available at www.defenselink.mil. CIA analytic report,...

...recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this report without dissent....

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Best of Freshman Writing 1 Best of Freshman Writing

By: Lucy Morrison

................................ 33 Dan Tyger “How September 11, 2001 Changed News Television”........................ 37 Best of Freshman Writing 3 Edi... ...about what we’re up to. We welcome your suggestions. Feel free to email us at the address in the “contact box” on this page. Second, we’re still not s... ...y solutions as I went. The calm feeling went away mid test, after I looked at my watch, and noticed I had very little time to finish the remain- ing p... ...to receive my grade. My grade, a 92, made me wonder why I worried so much. At my next calculus exam, I entered the room feeling calm and relaxed. Sure... ... the tragedy, which my father will probably never forget. He has told many news reporters that this event has been “one of the most touching things I’... ...ey grew up. There were exceptions to this view. Lubrano’s decision to be a newspaper writer because “I wanna tell the truth” unsettled his father (247... ...ermined to keep me holding the rope instead of actually jumping. Yet, as a ten-year-old girl, I yearned to spend all of my waking hours with this band... ... TNT, and Court TV broadcast CNN, and The Learning Chan- nel broadcast the BBC (Stossel 3). All of the major news anchors from ABC’s Peter Jennings to...

........ 31 Michele A. McClellan ?Overcoming the Hurdles? ................................................. 33 Dan Tyger ?How September 11, 2001 Changed News Television? ........................ 37...

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Best of Freshman Writing

By: Suzanne Harper

...Park students. Many campuses have student literary publica- tions as well. At the end of each fall and spring semester, we send out an email call for ... ...tyle and verified by the student’s instructor. (Please see the edito- rial at the end.) Faculty should gather the students’ pa- pers and send them in ... ... buckle up, and you should too,” stated the passenger as he stared blankly at his shoes. “Josh?” Adam said again, with a little concern creeping into... ...d and white name patch, “Abner,” on it that is losing its stitching. About ten years ago, my friend Jason purchased a hat in his hometown that looked ... ... and hip hop pioneer, Dr. Dre. ICP faced a more gradual rise to fame, with ten years of hard work and as many albums to prove it. Other than a few sha... ...h places to store and dispose of spent power plant waste. In an article in Newsweek, Jonathan Alter stated that some of the fuel pools in the country ... ...omes greater. Works Cited Alter, Jonathan. “At the Core of Nuclear Fear.” Newsweek 24 June 2002: 40-41. “EA-01-148-Peach Bottom (Exelon Generation Co... ... Voice 19 December 2003: 30. Pasternak, Douglas. “Assessing Threats.” U.S. News and World Report 28 April 2003: 47. 27 Best of Freshman Writing 28 I... ...onal/story/ 0.6903.866235.oo.html>. Harsh Detention for Afghan Prisoners.” BBC News. 16 Jan. 2002. 4 May 2003 < http:// www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/91....

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