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Overall, however, desertion is rarer than it has been in quite a while. The number of deserters classified as such by the Army dropped 33% from fiscal 2003 to last year, to 2,436--less than 1% of the total service and the fewest since 1998. One reason, surely, is that the men and women who join the military have a greater sense of duty in wartime. But it is also true that the military has become more efficient at preventing desertions: since 2001, unit commanders, instead of one central authority, have had responsibility for identifying potential deserters and reintegrating...
...peace, stability and opportunity. But today Hong Kong's haven looks less attractive, as its unemployment hovers around 7% while China's economy steams ahead at nearly 10% per year. The result: according to statistics released last week, only 38,100 mainlanders moved to Hong Kong in 2004, the fewest since the present immigration quotas were set in 1996. This may be bad news for the territory. With a fertility rate of 0.91 per woman, just a third of what it was 30 years ago and the lowest in the world according to the U.N., Hong Kong has come...
Guerriero’s shift has been particularly potent on the power play, striking 16 times with a man advantage. The Crimson has been assigned the second fewest penalty minutes per game in the nation this season—only Northeastern has fewer—but neutralizing the line will hinge, in part, upon whether Harvard can avoid succumbing to the contest’s predicted ugliness and taking unnecessary penalties...
...part or the community aspect that does the heavy lifting. Friends? A giant yes. A 2002 study conducted at the University of Illinois by Diener and Seligman found that the most salient characteristics shared by the 10% of students with the highest levels of happiness and the fewest signs of depression were their strong ties to friends and family and commitment to spending time with them. "Word needs to be spread," concludes Diener. "It is important to work on social skills, close interpersonal ties and social support in order to be happy...
...Mart campaign would call on the best instincts of the progressive movement. It would force progressives to focus their energies on the poorest of the working poor: the people who most need help and have the fewest supporters. And it would help the poorest of the poor help themselves. Labor laws are important, but they are no substitute for a strong union that can fight for the real interests of workers. A union at Wal-Mart would do more than any social welfare program to help low wage workers, because it would give the workers themselves the power to decide...