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...Scuds turned out to be its biggest failure in the war. In 1991 the U.S. dedicated 2,493 missions to what came to be called the "Great Scud Hunt." But it did not score one confirmable kill against a mobile missile or its launcher in Iraq--though it did destroy what turned out to be a few fuel trucks as well as some East German decoys that looked like the real thing. Scuds caused not only mayhem in Israel during the month the missiles rained down on Tel Aviv but also the deaths of 28 U.S. troops whose barracks...
First we must target and destroy the assumption that having a social life means getting really drunk in a dark crowded room. We must fight the fear of procrastination and allow the social to span the week. When we combine it with our academic and extracurricular activities, we become healthier, happier and even more productive...
...advance warning has been given. So why would a terrorist want to give us advance warning? I am not convinced for a moment that these tapes are authentic. I believe they are designed to keep the flames of Western paranoia burning brightly, so that the U.S. juggernaut to destroy Iraq can be kept on schedule. Ken Bobrosky Istanbul...
...Arase dam, which spans the Kumagawa River on Japan's southern island of Kyushu, would be torn down beginning in 2010. It's about time. Nearly 50 years old, the dam generates less than 1% of the region's electricity and would be more expensive to maintain than destroy. Never popular with locals, the Arase has also been blamed for exacerbating rather than controlling floods as well as causing the extinction of a local species of smelt. Still, with the project costing taxpayers an estimated $39 million and an additional dam still scheduled to go up just 40 kilometers away...
...pursue a peaceful, diplomatic solution to the crisis. Military action is not contemplated in response to North Korea's WMD, and not only because Iraq is the Administration's overwhelming priority. Even without nuclear weapons, North Korea's conventional military resources are formidable, and Pyongyang's artillery could destroy the South Korean capital, Seoul, in a matter of hours. A military showdown on the Korean peninsula could easily claim one million lives...