654,965 Dead

The February 2007 edition of the Johns Hopkins Magazine has a simple black cover with the text :
654,965 in gray and in white underneath: Could this many Iraqis have died? The article is about a study published in the Lancet done by two JHU researchers of epidemiology. The study which is novel in its approach was to use methodologies from epidemiology to determine how many people have been killed by violence since the beginning of the war. The method they used was to pose a survey to ordinary citizens in different Iraqi cities and neighborhoods. The survey was designed to best assess how many Iraqis had family members killed by violence. So after the study was completed they published findings. It was a startling number of 654,965 Iraqis killed.

At the movies ...

I saw a great movie this weekend. Breach the movie about Robert Hanessen's espionage against the US for the Russians. The movie was very interesting and had a lot of drama. The movie was probably one the most interesting I have seen in the last 3-4 months.

College Hoops:

Well Maryland has won its third straight game (all conference wins). This is really a good direction for the Terps with only 4 games left before the beginning of the ACC tournament. There next game is against Florida State. The Terps lost their last game to them so this is a very big game for Maryland.