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Search results for "Talbot" ...
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Extraordinary Rendition
"The film 'Extraordinary Rendition' explores the truth about CIA rendition and secret detention and sets out to explain not only the extent of US involvement in torture, but also why this program was carried out. It also reveals how rendition continues."
Tags: Egypt; India; CIA; torture; black sites; rendition; Poland; Bisher al Rawi; interrogation
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Nuclear Underground
The four part series investigated the thriving trade in dual-use technology, those products that can be used for civilian purposes as well as in nuclear applications. The research goes into the booming black market in nuclear materials out of post-apartheid South Africa.
Tags: black market; nuclear materials; rogue nations; dual use technology; nuclear applications
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The Lawless Sea
This eight-month investigation unveiled the "tangled web of responsibility" behind the 2002 sinking of the oil tanker Prestige off the coast of Spain and France. The investigation uncovered the various international stakeholders, including a U.S.- based inspection company, that failed to stop the faulty ship from launching. Ultimately, the investigation shows that, even though it was known that the ship was not seaworthy, the secrecy and lack of accountability surrounding the shipping industry allowed it to operate.
Tags: oil; oil spill; American Bureau of Shipping; international reporting; shipping industry; Lloyd's List; International Transport Federation
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Melting Not
The Service analyses school demographic data and census data to reveal that public elementary schools in Maryland's counties were becoming more racially isolated over the past decade. This is despite the fact that the school population and the state were becoming more diverse. The report is based on data from the National Center for Education Statistics and Census Data. Using CAR tools,the paper constructs what is known as a "dissimilarity index"- which shows a direct relationship with racial isolations.
Tags: Richard Stienke; Maree Sneed; Talbot County
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Small Time
A computer-assisted investigation, published by the Montgomery Journal, reveals that rural Montgomery county "judges send a disproportionate number of people to prison, as a percentage of population, when compared with much larger Maryland counties." The finding is based on the analysis of a database of prison population. The same trend, though to a smaller degree, applies to other small rural Maryland counties, known as the "wilds" of the state, where "tobacco still reigns king among crops, the Klan still Marches on and changes in septic tank regulations can create years-long furor." Rural counties have far less crime, but a higher desire to more seriously punish wrongdoers, the reporter finds.
Tags: Washington county; Dorchester; Wicomico; Talbot; Worcester; Charles; Caroline; Somerset; jail; women; incarceration; crime; courts; CAR
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Sowing Technology; Spinning Science into Gold; A Nation of Lab Rats
The Sierra Magazine examines the achievements of the modern agribusiness as a "self-contained factory" with sophisticated tools and techniques. The story package finds that "the concern about genetic engineering isn't that it enables us to commit altogether new mistakes; it's that it perfects out ability to commit old ones." The authors point out that the "overriding question about biotechnology is not whether we are for or against this or that technical achievement, but whether the debate will be carried out in such fragmented terms." The articles describe in detail most of the tools of the modern biotechnology, and look at the question whether we are "losing sight of ... the diverse and complex communities and habitats we live in."
Tags: ecology; genetic engineering; agriculture; FDA; cold tolerance; disease resistance; bacteria; environment; health; biomedicines
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Suffering Children and the Christian Science Church
Atlantic Monthly reports "The unwillingness of many Christian Science parents to seek help from physicians for their critically ill chidren has led to many painful and unnecessary deaths and, increasingly, to legal actions that have become burdensome to the Church and its members.
Tags: medical treatment faith healing Mary Baker Eddy Catherine King Nathan Talbot
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Southern Air Transport
KQED-TV (San Francisco) looks into former CIA-owned Southern Air Transport: its safety record, allegations of gun-running, links with South Africa, and SAT's dispute with San Francisco Airport.
Tags: Florida; gun running; Southern Air Transport; Contras; CIA espionage; Tape