Weekly Review
March 10, 2008 – US News & World Report
A vast array of pharmaceuticals (AP) — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones – have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.
March 11, 2008 – New York Times
BAGHDAD — A man walked up to a group of American soldiers on foot patrol in an upscale shopping district in central Baghdad on Monday and detonated the explosives-filled vest he was wearing, killing five soldiers and wounding three others and an Iraqi interpreter who accompanied them.
March 12, 2008 – CNN
It was squeeze time. With scores of reporters, producers and photographers all desperate to get past the state trooper and p.r. gatekeepers into Gov. Spitzer’s midtown Manhattan office for his expected resignation announcement….
March 13, 2008 – New York Times
The Defense Department is conducting an extensive review of the videotaping of interrogations at military facilities from Iraq to Guantánamo Bay, and so far it has identified nearly 50 tapes, including one that showed what a military spokesman described as the forcible gagging of a terrorism suspect.
March 14, 2008 – BBC
Clashes between protesters and security forces in Tibet’s main city of Lhasa have left at least two people dead, according to reports.
This concludes the weekly review of the weeks news.
