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...more money can be disbursed to rebuild hospitals and dispensaries. President Bush's program of establishing democracy in Iraq is not making its best showing at the moment. A low turnout for the Jan. 30 elections will not bring an end to this unjustified war. Sufghan Sarwar Khan Bristol, England I feel the deepest sadness for American soldiers, who must serve under a Secretary of Defense whose blend of supreme arrogance, utter ignorance and blinding incompetence puts them at such terrible and unnecessary risk. Surely even the most cursory acquaintance with The Art of War, the martial primer...
...economic reforms - in particular, severely weakened trade unions and a deregulated labor market. But great leaders make their own luck. By establishing a stable macroeconomic policy framework, by maintaining tight control of public expenditure in the first Blair government, and by cutting free from political interference the Bank of England's capacity to change interest rates, Brown deserves his place among the Treasury immortals. He is already the longest-serving Chancellor since the 1820s; of those who have held his office in the modern age, only the great Victorian William Ewart Gladstone spent more time in the Treasury's corridors...
Kimberlea Tracey, the New England regional director of UNICEF, described its relief efforts, including an initiative to repair and clean up water sources, put an end to the trafficking of children and prevent disease and hunger. Tracey cited other, less obvious concerns such as training new teachers to replace ones who were killed in the tsunami and re-marking the locations of mines that might have shifted with the rushing water...
...After identifying every potential romantic partner in her year and identifying their various class schedules, this student procrastinates even more by establishing groups based on a common name, identity or goal (see the groups My Name is Michael, Gaysia: the 8th Continent, and Students for the Secession of New England). Such procrastination makes students adept at spotting like others: who else would know that a particular passerby also loves Shakira...
...results, published last month in the New England Journal of Medicine, indicate that while active women were less likely to die than inactive ones, active, obese women still had a significantly higher risk of death than their lean counterparts. Hu defined active obese women as those who spent 3.5 or more hours exercising per week with a body-mass index—weight in kilograms over the square of the person’s height in meters—of 30 or higher...