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Drug trials that included foster children 20 years ago are coming under intense scrutiny, despite little evidence that the trials were anything but a medical success.
These days, this town in northern Iraq is relatively safe compared with other Sunni Arab-dominated areas of Iraq. For a village that long held folk status among Iraqis as one of the most sinister places in the country, that is quite a change. As the insurgency gathered strength last year, Qabr Abed served as a weapons depot and safe haven for an unusually large number of home-grown insurgent commanders, including Mohammed Shakara, Al Qaeda's leader for northern Iraq and its biggest city, Mosul.
Steve Dougherty travel article on visit to islands of Hvar, Korcula and Mljet in Adriatic Sea, city of Dubrovnik and towns along Croatia's Dalmatian coast; photos; maps (L)
UNDERACHIEVEMENT is frustrating to everyone concerned, or so I was told during my college career. The underachiever cannot understand why others are dissatisfied with his performance, while authority figures puzzle over the slacker's failure to fulfill his potential. While General Motors has produced all manner of underachieving cars and trucks over the years, its lackluster minivans have stood out -- or perhaps it is more accurate to say these efforts have not stood out. From the slant-nose ''Dustbusters'' of the early 1990's to the conventional boxes that made their debut as 1997 models, G.M.'s vans barely made a ripple or raised an eyebrow in the soccer field parking lots of suburbia.
It took 232 hands of no-limit Texas Hold'em over nearly 14 hours of card playing, but the 36th champion of the World Series of Poker's main event was finally crowned early Saturday morning. Joseph Hachem, a professional poker player from Australia who came here for the first time, is leaving with the $7.5 million first prize.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 13, 2005, covering July 17, 2005.
George Strait
Ying Yang Twins
Coldplay
Mariah Carey
Cassidy
2005Connor Bedard, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Connor Bedard is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Considered one of the greatest ice hockey prospects of his generation, he was selected first overall by the Blackhawks in the 2023 NHL entry draft and made his NHL debut that year. Bedard would go on to win the Calder Memorial Trophy as rookie of the year in 2024.
2005Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-American actress (born 1913)[†]
Geraldine Mary Fitzgerald was an Irish actress. She received the Daytime Emmy Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. She was a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame and was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2020, she was listed at number 30 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
2005Edward Heath, English colonel and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1916)[†]
Sir Edward Richard George Heath was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. Heath also served for 51 years as a Member of Parliament from 1950 to 2001. Outside politics, Heath was a yachtsman, a musician, and an author.
2005Joe Vialls, Australian journalist and theorist (born 1944)[†]
Joe Vialls was a conspiracy theorist and internet journalist based in Perth, Western Australia. His claims that major incidents such as the Port Arthur massacre, terror attacks in Bali and Jakarta and the 2004 Asian tsunami were the work of Israeli and American secret agents gained a measure of notoriety in Australia, America and Indonesia.
In 2005, the world population was approximately 6,586,970,132 people[†]