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...which has damaged whatever credibility America might have had among the ordinary Afghans it hopes to convert. The Taliban, like the Iraqis and Serbs before them, have exaggerated civilian casualties while helping create more of them by positioning artillery near mosques and schools--erecting human shields and daring the U.S. to hit them. Daud Khan, 28, a refugee coming out of Kandahar, the Taliban stronghold, told TIME that the regime's forces have moved into residential quarters of the city, occupied houses and put antiaircraft guns on the roofs. Another 45 camouflaged truckloads of weapons have been moved into...
Much of the U.S.'s humanitarian effort in Afghanistan is simply adding fuel to anti-American fires [THE STRATEGY, Oct. 15]. Dropping tons of food that the Afghans neither like nor understand (peanut butter, for example) merely perpetuates the image that Americans are trying to convert Afghans to our way of life--or that we are so arrogant we really don't care what they want. We need to discover what food Afghans want and need and then distribute that rather than the stuff we're giving them now. This would do much to advance our humanitarian image. DUNCAN WIMPRESS...
McDonald's hopes to accept RFID wands nationwide as early as next year. Canteen has decided to convert all its vending machines after watching sales shoot up more than 40% in its North Carolina test. IBM technology guru Michael Karasick notes that while "the hype level for m-commerce has gone way down," the the technology still promises to change retailing "profoundly...
...Reclamation Artists’ work is somewhat esoteric and hard to grasp, but in essence much of their work—including “Nest!”—seems to consist of attempts to make something out of nothing. Or, more precisely, to convert a formerly vacuous physical topos into an organic component of a superimposed piece of art. In particular, Reclamation Artists are concerned with neglected urban landscapes, and have often endeavored to add an aesthetically pleasing touch to otherwise barren and unappealing scenery...
...Long anticipating it would lose its exclusive right to sell Glucophage, BMS already was working another strategy: to try to convert doctors and patients to two new formulations of the drug, Glucophage XR and Glucovance. It's a common tactic used by brand-name drugmakers as their patents near expiration - develop a slightly altered version of a drug, which is then eligible under FDA rules for at least another few years of market monopoly, and try to get users of the original drug to switch. BMS has run newspaper ads offering patients free 30 or 60-day supplies...