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...roughly 33%), Singapore (about 30%) and China (approximately 26%). In Thailand, Dr. Stephen Atwood of the maternal and child-health section of UNICEF's regional office, says, "I've seen statistics from Bangkok General Hospital that suggest the national rate is as high as 65% of all births." (The actual figure is unknown - the Thai Ministry of Public Health told TIME that it does not keep statistics...
...gleefully threatened a hostage with decapitation in 1994. That hostage survived, but Danny Pearl, the Wall Street Journal Pakistan correspondent whom Sheikh is charged with kidnapping in January 2002, did not. The video of Pearl's beheading can still be found on the Internet (though the identity of the actual knife wielder remains unknown). How does someone like Sheikh - "the kindest, most gentle person you could meet," according to his brother - turn terrorist...
...gleefully threatened a hostage with decapitation in 1994. That hostage survived, but Danny Pearl, the Wall Street Journal Pakistan correspondent whom Sheikh is charged with kidnapping in January 2002, did not. The video of Pearl's beheading can still be found on the Internet (though the identity of the actual knife wielder remains unknown). How does someone like Sheikh--"the kindest, most gentle person you could meet," according to his brother--turn terrorist...
...guide, formerly published by the Committee on Undergraduate Evaluation (CUE) and now by a combination of the CUE and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS)— the current apparatus is insufficient for giving feedback to professors and teaching fellows during the actual course of the semester. The CUE is now convening to consider a more streamlined and enforcible system for both midterm grading and evaluation. Professors and teaching fellows will be required to give students an indication of their relative progress in the course, something sorely lacking in many seminars and paper-oriented courses; and students...
...that the date of Easter is probably the most complicated celebratory calculation this side of Hinduism, which has a number of competing religious calendars. The standard rule is "the Sunday after the first full moon on or after the day of the vernal equinox." But in fact, the actual divination of the date is so involved that it has its own offical name: "computus." And so challenging that Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of history's greatest mathematicians, devoted the time to create an algorithm for it. It goes on for many lines. You can look it up. And, of course...