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...people have died in his work group, which numbers no more than 40 laborers at one time. Some drowned during storms, while others succumbed to malaria or never came up after diving deep into the river. "The foreigners want gold," he says, squinting for yellow dust in the brown silt. "So we look for it." The equation in Asia's new Great Game is simple - and deadly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Scramble For A Piece of Burma | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...could not have been making the progress we have been making.” Others voiced similar criticisms of economics. Harvard Economics Professor David I. Laibson ’88 noted that economics reduces individuals into simple decision-makers instead of acknowledging that people have several competing mental processes. Brown Neurobiology Professor Peter E. Politser argued that economics ignores the nuances of decision making. “To understand decisions across many contexts, we often have to ask not just what people choose, but how and why,” he said. Throughout the symposium, the professors stressed the discipline?...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Event Tackles Decision Making Theory | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...enough to know that if they turn in an insurgent, they won't face revenge attacks. "You can go kill and capture [insurgents] all you want; it doesn't matter. The people have got to turn against them, and they haven't yet in Mosul because they're intimidated," Brown says. "And I don't blame them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Mosul, Iraq's Insurgency Refuses to Be Tamed | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...Mosul agree that insurgents unseated from elsewhere in Iraq have followed a "path of least resistance" to this northern city. "There were 28 U.S. battalions in Baghdad during the surge as well as lots of Iraqi battalions. Up here there was one battalion," says Brigadier General Robert B. Brown, deputy commander of the 25th Infantry Division. "So where are [the insurgents] gonna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Mosul, Iraq's Insurgency Refuses to Be Tamed | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...actively turn against subversive elements within it, and either fight or flush them out in the same way that Sunni tribal sheiks in Anbar switched sides and allied with the Americans against al-Qaeda in their province, a movement known as the Sahwa. That hasn't happened yet, General Brown says, because Mosul's diverse makeup has proved difficult to foster such a movement. The Anbar Sahwa fell into line behind tribal sheiks, whose word is law, but Nineveh is not exclusively a tribal society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Mosul, Iraq's Insurgency Refuses to Be Tamed | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

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