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...from accidents. Still, that's 2,270 children every day, all year, who won't get a chance to grow up. The World Health Organization (WHO) just released its first annual report on the problem, listing the five leading killers and the steps to be taken to combat them. (Download the report...
...very sort of careless and baseless military intervention that it ended up endorsing. The war in Iraq may not be the imperialistic oil-grab some on the left have evoked, but the indignation and dissembling with which its leaders have responded to the mercenary problem certainly does little to combat that perception—at home or in the nurseries of anti-American agitators...
...Lost part of his foot during combat in the Vietnam...
...candidate against a tough Republican challenger. A Caroline Kennedy appointment "is fifty-fifty at best," says political consultant Hank Sheinkopf, a spokesman for state senate Democratic leader Malcolm A. Smith. "She has not run a statewide campaign. She has not run a local campaign. She has not been in combat, which is the state of politics in New York and anywhere else." (See pictures of J.F.K.'s early years...
...course syllabus in hand. “Stanley, you are not doing this to these poor children!” Bass said in imitation of the teaching fellow. As founder of both CES and the Social Studies concentration, students said he strove to integrate various academic disciplines and combat the specialization of the University. “If Stanley had left the University in 1970, he still would have had an enormous shaping influence on Harvard,” said David Blackbourn, current director of CES. Throughout his career, Hoffmann’s personal experiences in Vichy France catalyzed...