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Lately, however, the problem has been an absence of intelligence and precious few leads about the whereabouts of bin Laden or his comrades. That may be because the Taliban, which controlled Afghanistan and gave comfort to al-Qaeda before the U.S. invaded, is regrouping. "The tribal chiefs are hedging their bets," says an adviser to Afghan President Hamid Karzai. "They know that when the American soldiers leave their village, the Taliban will steal back to take revenge." A few miles north of Shkin, in a dusty bazaar known as Bormol, gunmen dragged a pro-American police chief and seven...
...children with less severe problems--children who are somber but not depressed, antsy but not clinically hyperactive, who rely on some repetitive behaviors for comfort but are not patently obsessive compulsive--the pros and cons of using drugs are far less obvious. "Unless there is careful assessment, we might start medicating normal variations [in behavior]," says Stephen Hinshaw, chairman of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley...
...tour that includes evening theater trips and fine wines than if it's just about the bike. "As boomers, who make up a significant portion of the customer base, have aged and as the appeal of biking trips has broadened," says Tom Hale, founder and owner of Backroads, "the comfort level and add-ons have taken biking trips to new heights...
...Spangler Center at the Business School, which opened in Jan. 2001, receives rave reviews stemming from its comfort, copious amount of light and central location on the Business School campus...
...students to use pencil, paper and legwork to register for their courses at the start of the term or to add and drop them later on. Call it laziness, or call it efficiency, but a website on which students could carry out these time-consuming necessities from the comfort of their dorms would work wonders for the already-hectic schedules of the term’s first weeks. One imagines that the current system’s archaic array of hand-filled forms and in-person visits is not all that different from the way scholars cleared their studies with...