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...Guns for Hire Thank you for the article "America's Other Army," about the private security companies operating in Iraq [Oct. 29]. If the architects of the Iraq invasion had used some common sense - like deploying more troops - we wouldn't need military contractors. And if the Iraqi people had backbone and stood up to terrorists, our troops could come home. It seems that American blood is cheap to them. Gerry Turchi, Mooresville...
...with them is to wait until more congenial leaders gain power. France's newly elected President Nicolas Sarkozy spent his summer vacation in New Hampshire and even visited the Bush family in Maine. Until such thaws come, allies at odds have to be honest--and vigilant for areas of common ground. While the U.S. and Turkey may be at loggerheads now, they should remember that doesn't have to last forever...
Percentage of the 1.3 billion people in China with one of the 129 most common surnames...
...years ago that physicist Luis Alvarez and his son Walter, a geologist, proposed the giant-impact theory of dinosaur extinction. Their evidence was compelling: a thin layer of iridium in the earth's sediment dating to about the time of the die-off. Iridium is rare on Earth but common in asteroids. The iridium layer, mapped by the Alvarezes in scattered sites around the world, suggested an asteroid that vaporized on impact, spreading a cloud throughout the stratosphere. The argument seemed sealed in the 1990s, when geologists realized that a huge crater centered near Chicxulub, Mexico, was almost certainly caused...
...that the scientists chose a cold virus as the delivery vehicle. Cold viruses do a good job of ferrying HIV genes for the same reason they do a good job of making us feel lousy: once inside the body, they infect cells very efficiently. But they are so common most people have some tolerance to them, and so the immune system waves them past without getting too excited by them--or by any HIV genes that might be riding piggyback...