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Trauma surgeon Stephen Ray Odom, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, testified on April 22 that alleged Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev suffered from a "high-powered injury” that resulted in wounds to the middle ear, the skull base, his vertebrae and his pharynx.


A trauma surgeon detailed the suspect's condition in a hearing the day the Chechen immigrant, who was lying in a Boston hospital bed, was first charged over the bombing attacks that killed three people and wounded about 264.

Tsarnaev was arrested on 19 April, four days after the bombing attack, at the conclusion of a day-long lockdown of most of the Boston area that began ... Read more »
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Published: February 7, 2003
   
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is recruiting Chinese students at American universities to gain insight into what it says is an intensified effort by the Chinese government to obtain militarily useful technologies in the United States, according to law enforcement officials.

A senior F.B.I. official said the program was aimed at students and scholars because they were sometimes tapped by the Chinese government to collect information, particularly in nuclear physics and disciplines that could be used to advance military communications, missile tracking and battlefield command and control.

The effort, which the official said had been going on for six months and entailed paying students from China, comes as the ... Read more »
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Bystanders beware: crime scenes staged on streets
 
(Newser) – Criminal incidents around Washington may not always be what they seem: The FBI, CIA, Secret Service, and other authorities stage crimes all over town, aiming to put trainees in the heat of the action, the Washington Post reports. Professional actors, students, retired cops, and others play bad-guy targets for new recruits—sometimes to the shock of bystanders not in on the drama.

"The goal is to make the training realistic and relevant,” says a CIA spokeswoman. Some actors get deeply involved in their roles: One psychologist has played the same mentally ill person for decades, evolving from a man "babb ... Read more »
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