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...Marine officer as saying, "You've almost had insurgency Darwinism. All the stupid ones are dead." The surviving terrorists in Fallujah may be the smart ones in the short term, but their willingness to destroy their innocent countrymen will ensure their ultimate extinction. And that will be the fate of fanatical terrorists everywhere. Ray Gregory Norfolk, Virginia, U.S. I am impressed by Time's reporting on the war in Iraq. But I am disturbed by the Bush Administration's claim that the fighting there is part of the "war on terror." This isn't a war on terror...
...heyday in the 19th century when natural science was first introduced into colleges in the pre-Civil War era,” Edwards says. “The intelligent design movement now is just a variant on the creationism debates.”Edwards says a bizarre twist of fate caused an alliance between science and religion. He adds that when the natural sciences weren’t taught in American colleges, some scientists justified their discipline by saying it provided evidence of the existence of God.“The irony is now that the tables are turned...
...Most of Asia is now facing currency headwinds. That's because the region continues to tie its fate to the U.S. dollar. After nearly three years of declines from early 2002 to late 2004, the greenback rebounded in 2005. Many of Asia's dollar-linked currencies have followed suit?especially those of China, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and India. The Japanese yen has been a striking exception, having weakened 14% against the dollar since early...
...Scooter's Fate The indictment of Vice President Dick Cheney's aide Scooter Libby for perjury and obstruction of justice [Nov. 7] was the first breach in the protective wall of lies and deception that allowed the Administration to drag us into the senseless, totally unjustified war in Iraq. Now that the wall has been broken in one place, the truth will come flooding through. In a democracy, citizens are guilty of the sins of their leaders because voters chose them. We cannot pretend we are blameless. We elected them, and we are just as guilty as they...
...what was at stake. Does publicly humiliating China save lives? Or is China more effectively motivated by other things, like trade agreements?" How did a writer known for parsing personal dilemmas get interested in the political kind? The answer may lie in the inner turmoil Tan faced just before fate led her to Burma. For years, she had suffered bouts of depression, which she thinks runs in her family (her grandmother, a merchant's concubine in prerevolutionary Shanghai, committed suicide in front of Tan's mother). By 2000, her anxiety had become debilitating. "On the street I was afraid...