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...figured wrong. As class attendance steadily thins, the workload does not. The first few problem sets each take about 40 hours to complete. The work burden is reason enough for many extraordinarily gifted students to drop...

Author: By Logan R. Ury, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Burden of Proof | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...President George W. Bush and his key allies - Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair, Canadian leader Stephen Harper and NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer - wanted a greater sharing of the burden, and to give ground commanders full authority to deploy troops as they see fit, rather than be required to refer back to defense ministries in Europe's capitals. But the caveats that keep Italian, French, German and Spanish troops out of the heavy combat zones in the south of the country were not significantly relaxed. The Poles offered up an additional 1,000 troops toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How NATO Chose to Fail in Afghanistan | 12/4/2006 | See Source »

...Like Father, Like Daughter? Not if I Can Help It Those of us physicians who feel the heavy bureaucratic burden of medicine are much less likely to encourage our children to follow in our footsteps

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why I'm Not Against, Like, Oh Wow Man, Pot | 11/30/2006 | See Source »

...officials on both sides took pains to stress - simply a matter of logistics. And the two men appeared relaxed after their meeting, stressing common themes such as a rejection of the idea of partitioning Iraq, and stressing the need for Iraqi forces to take on more of the security burden. Still, reports ahead of the summit on the outlook that each man would bring to the table suggests a substantial degree of tension between the two sides, both of them under mounting political pressure at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush and Maliki Put on a Show of Unity | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

...Prohibitions have never worked, and they certainly won’t work in the case of online poker,” Pappas said. “The internet is so ubiquitous, and the enforcement mechanisms, by putting the burden on the banks, [are] going to be very difficult to enforce...

Author: By Erin F. Riley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Players Refuse to Fold to New Rules | 11/21/2006 | See Source »

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