Monthly Archive for October, 2004
WASHINGTON ? Four Britons who were held incommunicado at the U.S. military prison in Cuba for more than two years as suspected al-Qaeda fighters filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging that they were tortured.
Is there really life out there? Was a kinder, wetter Mars once dotted by bacterial blooms whose progeny now await our discovery? Do unseen, alien microbes swim in the buried oceans of Europa, Callisto, or Ganymede? What about Titan?s sub-zero methane lakes?
A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida suggests a plan – possibly in violation of US law – to disrupt voting in the state’s African-American voting districts, a BBC Newsnight investigation reveals.
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TUESDAY, Oct. 26 (HealthDayNews)—Researchers have once again successfully wired monkey brains to robot arms, raising hope that science is moving closer to finding ways to help paralyzed people control their world.
For John Kerry, the specter of Attorney General John Ashcroft trashing Americans? civil liberties has been a useful campaign prop. In campaign stops, Kerry has promised to “end the era of John Ashcroft and renew our faith in the Constitution.” In a Kerry administration, he promised the liberal group MoveOn last year, “there will be no John Ashcroft trampling on the Bill of Rights.” In his 2004 campaign book, A Call to Service, Kerry accuses Ashcroft and the Bush administration of “relying far too much on extraordinary police powers.”
Secret plans for the war in Iraq were passed to British Army chiefs by US defence planners five months before the invasion was launched, a court martial heard yesterday.
Clinical research touted by the journal of the American Association for Cancer Research that shows marijuana’s components can inhibit the growth of cancerous brain tumors is the latest in a long line of studies demonstrating the drug’s potential as an anti-cancer agent.
You could try, but probably wouldn’t want to be around when you released it. The prospect that rogue scientists could develop bioweapons designed to target certain ethnic groups based on their genetic differences was raised this week in a report by the British Medical Association (BMA).
Tens of thousands of postal ballots have gone missing in the US state of Florida, sparking fresh concern over irregularities in the poll campaign.
Armageddon came early for George Bush this year, and he was not ready for it. His long-awaited showdowns with my man John Kerry turned into a series of horrible embarrassments that cracked his nerve and demoralized his closest campaign advisers. They knew he would never recover, no matter how many votes they could steal for him in Florida, where the presidential debates were closely watched and widely celebrated by millions of Kerry supporters who suddenly had reason to feel like winners.
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