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...book has been sliced up and jumbled. The only way to reassemble it - and identify the site it describes - is to use a code sent to you by text. Then another text arrives with a question that can only be answered by visiting the site itself. Send the correct reply, and you get a new code to move on to the next site. The clues can lead to any of 60 landmarks and monuments throughout Rome, ranging from the obvious - the Colosseum - to the more obscure, such as a shrine marking the spot where Joan, the legendary female Pope...
...Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, your longtime foe, stepped down yesterday. What does this mean for Afghanistan? Arrivals and departures don't matter much - unless we correct the institutions, unless we change the mind-sets that follow an old policy. For example, if Pakistan is using radicalism as a tool of policy for strategic depth in Afghanistan, well, I wish to tell them it won't work. The best strategic depth in Afghanistan is friendship, cooperation. Afghanistan is willing to build that kind of relationship: cooperation, not weaponry, not sanctuary, not undermining, not seeking a puppet state. That will...
...Best Birth Your article on home birth credits me with natural-childbirth advocacy that started a new wave of home births in the 1970s [Aug. 18]. As one who is still advocating for women today, I'd like to correct a widely held myth repeated in your article: that the mass move to hospital births accounted for the huge drop in the maternal mortality rate between 1940 and 1960. Actually, public-health developments such as the availability of antibiotics, blood transfusions and intravenous fluids accounted for most of that reduction in the death rate. The real question is why that...
KARZAI Arrivals and departures don't matter much--unless we correct the institutions, unless we change the mind-sets that follow an old policy...
...original version of this story misstated the total number of HIV-positive male patients at one Public Health Service of Amsterdam clinic. The correct number is 157, not 689. The article also misspelled the name of a senior researcher with the Public Health Service of Amsterdam. The correct spelling is Udi Davidovich...