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...that there should be 600,000 troops--including Afghan ones--inside the country to quell the Taliban and al-Qaeda threat. Currently there are only about 65,000 coalition forces (including 33,000 U.S. troops) on the ground, in addition to some 70,000 Afghan army personnel--of whom fewer than half can fully function on their own--plus an ineffective police force. Iraq, by contrast, has some 160,000 coalition troops and a nearly 600,000-strong professional national-security force. If there is to be a surge at all, it will most likely be an Afghan...
...went with no clear winner in the Buckeye State, and for a few long hours it seemed that the nightmare of 2000 just might repeat itself. When the results were finally tabulated, George W. Bush had won the state by just over 118,000 votes--a difference of fewer than 11 ballots per precinct...
...result of the cuts, “students would probably receive fewer services,” said Steven Swanger, the CHA’s director of resident services. “If we can’t replace the funding, it would mean cutting back and looking for alternative funding, but we’re not prepared to cut this program [entirely] at this point...
...techno, however, to get a great deal out of these shows. This is because the track listings for these mixes are available online.Justice’s Essential Mix is an uninterrupted two-hour set in which the group weaves and patches together over 70 different songs from slightly fewer artists. You don’t have to know who Vamp, Tepr, Chromeo, or Goose are to connect to the mix. Hell, you don’t even need to know who Justice are to have a good time. This is owing to the fact that the best mixes...
...analysis of the data found that patients liked not-for-profit hospitals more, on average, than for-profit hospitals. Institutions with more nurses per patient were also more popular than those with fewer. And, on the whole, the hospitals that scored better according to the survey were also those that performed better on more traditional measures of clinical performance, such as providing the appropriate emergency treatment for heart attack or correctly following procedures designed to reduce risk of medical error...