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...brigade, but more will be needed to help the 33,000 troops already spread thin across a country one and a half times as large as its westerly neighbor. Adding more troops to Afghanistan may sound suspiciously like the Iraqi “surge”, but the primary aim in this case would be development rather than security. The focus in Afghanistan right now needs to be on building infrastructure. In a country riddled with poverty, landmines, and a thriving opium trade, a little carefully directed and managed funding goes a long way. More investment in agriculture, energy, roads...
...billion a year, respectively (those figures, too, are hazy estimates), although in the case of HIV especially, money has not always been channeled into disease-control programs based on the best scientific evidence. (That's particularly true for politically sensitive - and, therefore, under-funded or ignored - interventions that aim to prevent high-risk sex and drug abuse...
...eople see volunteering not as a form of public service but as an antidote to it.” Stengel wants truly national service, run by a bureaucracy within the federal government. The desire for this sort of program, rather than selfless individual service, is a solely nationalistic aim, and has nothing to do with a healthy service sector...
...terrorists' aim, according to officials, was to use the vehicle as a bomb blitz to blow apart the heavily fortified front gate about 200 yd. away. According to the plan, a second vehicle loaded with commandos armed with automatic weapons and grenades would speed through the breach and enter the embassy's chancery building, located another 200 yd. inside the compound. Once they made it inside, says TIME's source, their plan was to kill all the diplomatic personnel they could find. "Had they made it inside," he says, "it would have been a disaster...
...sacrifice 10 percent of their allocated federal funding for highway construction. Many states had lowered their drinking age from 21 to 18 in the 1970s—coinciding with the passage of the 26th Amendment by which citizens age 18 and older were granted voting rights. A primary aim of the FUDAA was to reduce typically high teenage TFRs by limiting access to alcohol for this age group. TFRs for 16-19-year-olds tend to be approximately double those for people 25 or older. By 1988, all states and the District of Columbia had capitulated and adopted a drinking...