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...same time, a new report-paid for by the Pentagon-echoes the recent private grumblings of some top military brass that the rapid deployment of troops to Iraq is in danger of crippling the fighting force that the nation has steadily rebuilt since the shaky post-Vietnam Army of a generation ago. Andrew Krepinevich, a retired Army officer and West Point graduate who wrote the 136-page report assessing the military's Iraq strategy, warns that the Army cannot maintain its current pace of operations in Iraq without leaving permanent damage. Plans to trim U.S. troops there this year...
...security establishment, and that should translate into even bigger gains for Kadima. The most recent polls, before Palestinian result, showed Kadima in the lead, winning around 40 seats in the 120-seat Knesset. But after the Hamas win, that could go up to around 50 seats. People sense danger in the Palestinian result, and they want to support the government...
According to the transcript, Summers also addressed the need for greater socioeconomic diversity at universities, saying, "There is very little danger in the US of going too far in this direction...
...other bird-flu areas, the villagers were quick to help. "Everyone cooperated, because we understand the health risks," says Rampai Gansa, a local housewife and health volunteer. Thanks to a determined government control program that has reached even the most remote communities, virtually every Thai knows the danger bird flu presents - and how it can be fought. In Thailand, the world's fourth-largest poultry exporter before avian flu exploded at the end of 2003, more than 60 million birds have been killed by the virus or culled, while 22 people have been infected and 14 have died...
...cracking down on even nonpolitical forms of expression, like women smoking in cafés and satellite TV. Some Iranians believe that the country's rulers fear further engagement with the West will embolden young people to demand greater freedoms, which may fatally undermine the regime's authority. "They feel danger, and their strategy of dealing with it is by attacking rather than cooperating," says a former senior reformist official...