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...slowdown isn't limited to the big three sports. NASCAR has been mired in a slump all season. Attendance is down, and a recent race at Talladega Superspeedway drew 50,000 fewer fans than the same event a year ago. The NCAA is cutting travel costs to combat the economic downturn. The organization will reimburse schools for only two bags of luggage per traveler, which will produce an expected savings of $1.5 million per year. Golf agents have reported a rough endorsement market for players, as the financial-services companies that have supported the sport got hit hardest by this...
...many plays about it. Even the last war that dramatically divided the nation, Vietnam, got far less attention onstage; with antiwar protests more urgent and impassioned (thanks largely to the draft), artistic comment took a backseat to political action. David Rabe, author of a memorable trilogy based on his combat experiences in Vietnam, recalls getting "turned down everywhere" before his first play, The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, was finally produced in 1971 by New York City's Public Theater. (The third, and best, play of his trilogy, Streamers, is being revived this fall by New York City's Roundabout...
...even if Mr. Gore finds it uniquely hard to go vegetarian, why does it matter? “An Inconvenient Truth” stresses that individuals must make bold changes to combat global warming. And on Wednesday, Mr. Gore spoke movingly of the need to approach the environment with “questions of fact, not questions of power.” Today, the powers of custom and convenience support eating meat. The facts suggest that adopting a vegetarian diet is the single most powerful step an individual can take to combat climate change...
...Just six years ago, close to a million combat-ready troops were deployed along the Line of Control - the truce boundary bisecting Kashmir that has functioned as a de facto border between the Indian- and Pakistani-controlled sides of the disputed territory. A 2003 cease-fire agreement managed to pull the two sides back from the brink of what could have been the fourth major war between them. And in the intervening years, as events related to the U.S. "war on terror" came to dominate Pakistan's security situation, the conflict that began at birth between modern India and Pakistan...
...rounds and increasingly sophisticated Improvised Explosive Devices. Between March 2007 and March 2008 police casualties hit 1119, according to the Ministry of the Interior. Afghan National Army deaths, by contrast, were 280. In the six months since March, another 720 police have died. "Our police have changed to a combat force," says Munir Mohammad Mangal, the deputy minister of interior in charge of police. "The ANA goes to an area, clears it and leaves. But the police have to stay in one place and maintain security...