Dr. Sanjay Gupta speaks with Adrian Raine about the features of a violent offender's brain, the anatomy of violence.
Includes criminologist Raine, the author of the just released book, The Anatomy of Violence, musing about the behavior of the Boston bombers and about the brains of boxers. [3:17 minutes]
Men from West Midlands had planned to target English Defence League rally in Dewsbury but arrived after it had finished
[....] Detectives say there is no evidence linking the group to Pakistan or al-Qaida – although Hasseen had researched bomb-making from Inspire magazine, a self-help guide produced by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula which is pushed on internet forums to would-be terrorists [....]
By Conor Fortune, Livewire blog @ Amnesty.org, April 30. 2013
Amnesty International researchers have been in Libya looking at what’s happened in the country since the downfall of former leader Muammar al-Gaddafi. This is what they found....
Seems the F.B.I. has a new definition for the word "terrorist." I am perplexed by this. If police are subject to being terrorized by losing one of their own, then don't they need better training? I guess in theory I could see a general population becoming terrorized by the execution of a whole lot of police officers by a political group within a short time frame. But one officer 40 years ago?
By Fredreka Schouten and Alan Gomez, USA Today, April 29, 2013
WASHINGTON – Seven technology companies and a software association – all with interests in shaping the immigration debate now underway in Congress -- each spent more than $1 million on their federal lobbying efforts during the first three months of this year, new reports shows.
By James Surowiecki, The Financial Page @ newyorker.com, April 27, 2013
Americans may have made two trillion dollars in off-the-books, unreported income last year. Did the recession drive them to the gray economy?
[.....] It’s a huge number: if the government managed to collect taxes on all that income, the deficit would be trivial. This unreported income is being earned, for the most part, not by drug dealers or Mob bosses but by tens of millions of people with run-of-the-mill jobs— [.....]
By Bill Chappell, The Two-Way @ npr.org, April 27, 2013
[....] "Everybody has the feeling that Iraq is becoming a new Syria," Mosul businessman Talal Younis, 55, told the AP Wednesday. "We are heading into the unknown. ... I think that civil war is making a comeback."
By Thomas James Brennan, At War blog @ nytimes.com, April 26, 2013
Summary of expert opinion in the article: Yes. No. Maybe sometimes in rare instances. Maybe other times that would add to the problem by humiliation. Maybe we should be safe and not sorry; maybe if we do that we will make things worse.
Senate bill may require paying sales tax for more online purchttp://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/04/23/189458/bill-may-require-paying-sales.html#storylink=cpy
By Lindsay Wise, McClatchy Newspapers, April 23, 2013
[....] The Senate is expected to vote this week on the Marketplace Fairness Act, which would give states the authority to collect sales taxes for online purchases. Current laws allow states to collect taxes only from retailers with physical presences in their states, resulting in the loss of a projected $23 billion in sales tax revenue nationwide for 2012, according to a 2009 University of Tennessee study.
By Thomas Fuller, New York Times, April 23/24, 2013
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — His bookshelves are filled with the collected works of Marx, Engels and Ho Chi Minh, the hallmarks of a loyal career in the Communist Party, but Nguyen Phuoc Tuong, 77, says he is no longer a believer. A former adviser to two prime ministers, Mr. Tuong, like so many people in Vietnam today, is speaking out forcefully against the government.
By Annie Lowrey, New York Times, April 23/24, 2013
CHICAGO — On a stormy evening this spring, nurses at Dr. Gary Stuck’s family practice were on the phone with patients with heart ailments, asking them not to shovel snow. The idea was to keep them out of the hospital, and that effort — combined with dozens more like it — is starting to make a difference: across the city, doctors are providing less, but not worse, health care.
