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The WHO's decision to raise the pandemic alert level to phase 4 cannot be taken lightly. Although the move will not have much effect on the U.S. response, it will obligate countries that have not yet been infected to step up precautions. For poor nations, that undertaking could be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Officials Say Flu Cannot Be Contained As Cases Rise | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

Gen Ed’s only hope for salvation lies in rationalizing the concept of required courses or fields of study by admitting that there exists a canon and that it is worth knowing. The administration’s decision to frustrate efforts to incorporate Great Books into the undergraduate...

Author: By Kiran R. Pendri | Title: Futurology 5 | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

Nick Carraway explains in The Great Gatsby—which I read because my high school and the writers of the Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition test luckily did believe in Great Books—that he is going to take up a heavy reading schedule so that he...

Author: By Kiran R. Pendri | Title: Futurology 5 | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

This time, though, the Western world took a bait it had set for itself. Ahmadinejad’s assertions that Israel is a “cruel and repressive racist regime” were made at a United Nations conference on racism in Geneva that the United States, along with...

Author: By Adrienne Y. Lee | Title: No Shows | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

In the latest development in Nepal's experiment with allowing former rebels to take the helm of the nation's democratically elected government, the Maoist leadership formally retracted its threat last week to sack the chief of the formerly royalist Nepal army. The move, some say, may have saved the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nepal's Maoist Government Faces Unrest in the Ranks | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

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