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...rescue. TIME's Kim Humphreys accompanied a team of customs agents from Tampa Bay, Fla., as well as Chicago, Dallas and San Diego on a mission to safeguard the 27-story Hibernia National Bank headquarters on Union Street. Wearing heavy camouflage uniforms, black vests and helmets, they carried Steyr-AUG rifles equipped with flashlights that allowed them to work in the dark. In stifling heat, the teams checked each room for looters and squatters, using a series of rhythmic chants to inform other team members of what they had found, as well as to indicate when backup was required...
...August, Chen was under house arrest for his activities. Seven people, he and his wife say, were stationed outside his home to watch him. But Chen felt he had to escape to Beijing to continue with the lawsuit. On the evening of Aug. 25, while police snoozed outside, he sneaked out in the dark. Hearing someone follow him, Chen threw handfuls of gravel in different directions to confuse his pursuer. "The night gives me an advantage," says Chen. "I can navigate better than people with sight can." With a relative as a guide, Chen fled into fields of tall corn...
With civilian authority in the Gulf Coast tangled in controversy, politics and bureaucracy, the only government endeavor that appears to be pursuing its mission efficiently is the U.S. military relief effort led by Honoré. Since he arrived in the region on Aug. 31, he has been packing two days into one, shuttling by helicopter along the storm- and flood-ravaged coast. When he sees a problem, he tackles it. He immediately pressured the Federal Government to move gasoline into damaged areas, for example, arguing that if people have gas, they can drive to designated pickup points for food and water...
...article "The Making of Modern Asia" [Aug. 15-22], author Kishore Mahbubani stated, "Japan's record in World War II was disastrous. But if Japan had not succeeded early in the 20th century, Asia's development would have come much later." Mahbubani also said, "Asia needs to send Japan a big thank-you note." Those of us who are not Japanese might consider doing so, but only if Israel sends a big thank-you note to Germany. Mahbubani seems to assume that economic growth has a value higher than anything else. Maybe that is his belief...
...excerpt you published of the book Crash Course by Chris Whittle [Aug. 29], he argues that putting children in charge of their own learning will improve our schools. Whittle envisions children organizing their own school day in classrooms with larger numbers of students; children contributing to the functioning of the school; children capable of tremendous focus and responsibility. As a parent of a former Montessori student, I can tell you that Whittle is describing a typical Montessori classroom. When we teach our children to think, to process and to be accountable for their own learning, they succeed. Montessori has been...