This week,the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, told the Wall Street Journal Taliban forces are "a very aggressive enemy right now,"

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The prestigious journal Science is out with its top 10 breakthroughs of 2009.

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According to a posting on the Journal's Web site, editors at the world's top medical journal found by examining a computer diskette that relevant data about Vioxx's risk to the heart compared with an older pain drug, naproxen, were deleted two days before the paper was initially submitted to the Journal.

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The discovery stems from a court deposition of Gregory Curfman, one of the Journal's top editors.

FORBES: Merck Study May Have Hidden Vioxx Data

It was a real study in a real journal published by top researchers.

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