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...steady stream of tour operators now convey travelers up the vertiginous road to Santikhiri?particularly from December until February when the cherry trees dot the slopes with their pink exuberance?but it wasn't always thus. As late as the mid-1970s, Doi Mae Salong was strictly off-limits to outsiders. Tuan and his men had struck an agreement with the Thai government that their presence would be tolerated, provided they helped fight the Thai communist insurgents in the region. The fiercest battle began in 1970 and lasted five years. Almost 1,000 kmt soldiers perished before they finally routed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forever China in a Corner of Thailand | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...When the dot com companies were thriving, we couldn’t hire any Internet techology specialists. Now they are finding Harvard a much more attractive place,” Walker laughs...

Author: By Jenifer L. Steinhardt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculties Deal With Serious Budget Crunch | 2/13/2002 | See Source »

Feinberg, in a black-and-white polka-dot tie, speaks in short, punchy sentences and a loud voice. He has already given the speech 32 times up and down the East Coast. The main thrust: The government, for the first time ever, has agreed to write large checks to victims' families without any litigation. The checks will arrive within four months after a claim is filed--no legal fees, no agonizing 10-year lawsuit. But every award will be based on a cold calculus, much the way courts handle wrongful-death claims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Is A Life Worth? | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...Feinberg, in a black-and-white polka-dot tie, speaks in short, punchy sentences and a loud voice. He has already given the speech 32 times up and down the East Coast. The main thrust: The government, for the first time ever, has agreed to write large checks to victims' families without any litigation. The checks will arrive within four months after a claim is filed--no legal fees, no agonizing 10-year lawsuit. But every award will be based on a cold calculus, much the way courts handle wrongful-death claims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WTC Victims: What's A Life Worth? | 2/6/2002 | See Source »

...didn't much perturb the sentry - their sound had filled Uruzgan's night sky for the past two weeks. Then came an explosion, "not like any that I have heard before, not a rocket or a grenade", he says. He could make out only a strange vehicle, and a dot of red light that disappeared as quickly as it had appeared. He rushed back to alert the others, before diving into a ditch, where he cowered for ten minutes, listening as his friends were shot. "I could hear them crying, 'Allah help me,' " he says, "They were saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the U.S. Killed the Wrong Afghans | 2/6/2002 | See Source »

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