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...departing President George W. Bush, either. His last year in office was among his worst--clueless in crisis. Several of his appointees did perform honorably under difficult circumstances, however. One was Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who will continue to serve in the new Administration. Gates was a constant voice of sanity when it came to the sorts of weapons, tactics and troop levels that will be needed to fight the wars Bush left behind. There is no telling what sort of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice might have been in another Administration, but she deserves a going-away Teddy...
...Before and during a foreclosure, a constant stream of people “not from around here” trickles through the neighborhood. Many of them bearing bad or contradictory news...
Holy Relics? Your "letter box" article mentions an ongoing effort to prove the existence of Jesus [Nov 24]. But the issue of whether Jesus was a real person has rarely been seriously challenged in modern times; instead what has been in constant debate is whether what we "know" about him from the Scriptures bears much resemblance to the truth, or whether the New Testament story is mostly a fabrication created by the early Church. Believers' fascination with relics might make for an interesting study in human nature, but - another discovery of Dead Sea Scrolls significance excepted - relics cannot shed much...
...Sahni warns that India's intelligence and security capability is woefully lacking in proportion to the scale of the threat it faces, and to its status as an emerging economic superpower that is under constant jihadist threat. "We cannot afford to be a tin-pot operation with no capacity to prevent and respond to terror, and bring terrorists to book," says Sahni. "That will not be the kind of country where people would like to invest." And the Mumbai massacre has provoked millions of Indians to demand that the government do a better job of protecting them. So, even...
...everywhere. "There has never been a vaccine against any human parasite," says Joe Cohen, a vice president of R&D at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) biologicals. "It's an extra challenge with malaria due to the complexity of the parasite, its ability to evade the immune system and our almost constant exposure to it." The result: 247 million malaria cases worldwide and almost 1 million deaths per year - the overwhelming majority of them infants and small children. (See TIME's A-Z Health Guide...