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Because of other commitments overseas, in Europe and Eastern Asia, and because the Pentagon is trying to limit Iraq tours to a year, the Army increasingly has had to rely on the National Guard and Army Reserve to help fill the roster of 150,000 troops in Iraq. Those part-time forces represent 40% of the current U.S. troop strength in Iraq and will grow to 50% in coming months. There were about 160,000 National Guard and Army reservists on active duty last week, including 60,000 inside Iraq. In a Dec. 20 memo published in the Baltimore...
...Heritage at Risk TIME's story on Donald and Shelley Rubin, collectors of Himalayan art [Dec. 13], surprised me because it seemed to glorify the collecting of foreign antiquities. Although I have no reason to suspect that the Rubins acquired their Far Eastern artifacts illegally, your magazine has, in the past, sought to highlight the destruction of Asia's cultural heritage and expose the damage done by illegal trading in antiquities. Legitimate collectors undoubtedly have a deep admiration for the art they buy, but their passion fuels an international trade that ultimately leads to the destruction of the cultural heritage...
...some advocacy groups are wary of the practice, especially when companies run credit checks on people applying for jobs that do not involve handling money or sensitive financial information. Studies from Eastern Kentucky University have found that good credit and good job performance don't necessarily go hand-in-hand, partly because bad credit can result from circumstances outside a person's control, such as sky-high medical bills. Moreover, a complaint filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) by an African-American woman denied a job because of her credit report raises the question of whether using credit...
...minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder China's first beer museum takes its subject very seriously. "Tsingtao beer culture," intones a guide, "is a paragon succeeding in integrating Eastern and Western culture." At the World of Tsingtao, tel: (86-532) 383 3437, who can argue? Located in the Yellow Sea port from which it takes its name, the museum at China's best-known brewery contains two-dozen exhibits that bear titles like "Mystic Yeast." The Bavarian Purity...
...Step One of Mishra's effort to rehabilitate the Buddha for his homeland is to rediscover Prince Siddhartha?the man who became the most famous Indian of all time while meditating under a fig tree in Bihar. Going back to the earliest Buddhist documents, Mishra recreates the scene in eastern India in the 6th century B.C., when a young aristocrat who has abandoned his wife and fortune, stumbles through Bihar searching for a way to end misery in the world. Restless, curious, lonely and sometimes arrogant, Mishra's Buddha is an ordinary man confronting problems that face ordinary...