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...passage of time. Roy Heath Truro, England Life Savers I was very impressed by your coverage of the Global Health crisis [Nov. 7], especially your article on Dr. Dora Akunyili, director general of Nigeria's National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, and her work to combat the trade in counterfeit medicines, even at the risk of her own life. It is good for her to be recognized as the Global Health hero she truly is. I appreciate her efforts and those of all the others fighting hard to eradicate dangerous diseases. Uche Iwuamadi Lagos Bono's expectant...
...next government in Baghdad fails to improve conditions in Sunni areas and clamp down on sectarian excesses by Shi'ite militias. And even if the U.S. can lure some guerrillas to the negotiating table, it still faces a seemingly inescapable quandary: so long as U.S. troops are involved in combat in Iraq, there's every reason to believe the insurgency will be able to recruit sufficient numbers of motivated new fighters to do battle with them. Rhode Island Democratic Senator Jack Reed, a former Army paratrooper who was briefed privately by military officials during a visit to Iraq in October...
What makes the Predator mission--and Rogers' job--so unusual is the 7,000 miles between pilot and plane. Basing the crew members at home rather than at the front keeps them out of harm's way and saves the military money. Still, "for us, it's combat," says Rogers, 34, who has been deployed to battle zones twice, most recently Iraq this summer. "Physically, we may be in Vegas, but mentally, we're flying over Iraq. It feels real...
...join in black solidarity. But, as West’s remark suggests, racism lingers at all levels of American society (as demonstrated so powerfully in the aftermath of Katrina), and Shelby rightly suggests that black solidarity can be vibrant even if it is narrowly tailored to combat that prejudice...
...human core” that first drew Theron to the complex character of Aeon Flux, whom Theron says she deems a “very different kind of a female superhero.” While the character is a crime-fighter attempting to restore order and combat injustice in the future, Theron notes that she “sometimes did not think of this as a futuristic film at all,” and that the character “was very real” to her. Flux is “constantly…challenging the world that...