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...Lebanon (1983) and Somalia (in the 1990s) that it dared launch the suicide missions of 9/11. The U.S. must stay the course because if it retreats from Iraq, all enemies of freedom, especially al-Qaeda and its admirers, will become more adventurous. In addition, those religious zealots will claim Islam as one of their tragic victims. Husam Dughman, Toronto...
...flies and floats. Do it under cover of smoke and tear gas or fighter escort if necessary. Burn the equipment, but get the soldiers out now. Dunkirk was a defeat for the Brits, but the spirit that emerged from the rescue operation galvanized them for ultimate victory. We might claim some of that spirit by rescuing our soldiers right away. Doug Dix, Bloomfield, Conn...
...basic research scientists, Tonegawa and McHugh don't claim that their work will lead to a drug or therapy--not yet. And if it does, nobody is likely to focus on déjà vu, a mere side effect of memory. But a fuller understanding of how the hippocampus works could lead to the creation of a drug that strengthens the pattern-recognition circuit, which could help people overcome fearful memories that are triggered by associations with a familiar-seeming place (like a dentist's office). Of course, if you strengthen the circuitry too much, you might get the opposite illusion...
PETER MACKAY, Canada's Foreign Minister (at left), on a Russian crew's planting a flag on the seabed at the North Pole in order to lay claim to any mineral deposits that might be buried below...
When parliament is in session, it struggles to find a quorum for deliberations. Repeated attempts by TIME to get attendance figures from the office of the Speaker have been rebuffed with the claim that such data is too "politically sensitive" to be published. But Iraqis don't need statistics: they can tell from the wide swaths of empty seats clearly visible in the live broadcasts on state...