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...this stage, almost no one is talking about a rapid, large-scale troop drawdown. Inside the Pentagon, officers privately caution that troop levels could even rise if Iraqi security forces don't shape up as expected, if the insurgency grows more fierce or--of greatest concern--if civil strife evolves into full-fledged civil war. In fact, a senior Pentagon official tells TIME that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld asked his planners last week to make sure they have a contingency option if things go very badly in Iraq next year...
...More convincingly, some agricultural officials in Tokyo caution that the countryside must be protected from development to maintain the aesthetic appeal of the shimmering paddies. The land would be ravaged by typhoons without well-tended rice fields, which act as sponges during heavy rains and are a buffer against erosion, according to farmers. "The rice paddies prevent floods and landslides and maintain the Japanese landscape," says Masahiro Konno, general manager at the WTO office of Japan's Central Union of Agricultural Co-operatives. "A destruction of the rice farm will destroy agriculture in Japan...
...should have known better. But back in May of 2004 I threw caution to the wind and voted in favor of increasing the Student Activities Fee from $35 to $75. Like an excited schoolgirl, I giggled at the prospect of rocking out to the hottest new boy-band in Lavietes Pavilion or embracing my gangsta side with Snoop Dogg on a hot and sweaty spring evening in the MAC quad. There seemed no way for the fresh-faced Undergraduate Council (UC) representatives hawking this new utopian vision to fall short. They convinced me with their slogan...
...serious side effects (about half of all users experience side effects ranging from mild to severe), you might think doctors would be very selective in prescribing them - writing scripts only for those people in a deep and prolonged misery that can't be traced to everyday problems. But caution doesn't seem to rule here. In Australia, about 85% of those annual 12 million antidepressant scripts are written not by psychiatrists but by G.P.s, typically at the end of a consultation lasting 20 min. or less...
...seems smart to err on the side of caution after years of failing to take the very real threat of a pandemic seriously. But panic is the enemy of good preparation. Hoarding antivirals?which may not even be that effective in the event of a pandemic?reduces the availability of the drugs at a time when supplies are already limited, and could result in more people dying of normal flu this season. To combat hoarding, Roche, the company that makes Tamiflu, recently suspended shipments to private suppliers in several countries. Closing borders in the case of a pandemic would...