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...Many of these youngsters fit Hollywood casting for Southeast Asian guerrillas: scrawny, scrappy adolescents who show no sign of needing a shave anytime soon. But Felix, who sidled up to me as I watched the KIA academy cadets run through their drills, disturbed the easy image of a militia conscripting hungry boys in return for a fistful of rice. Armed with a university degree in international relations, Felix speaks fluent English and expresses himself eloquently on political philosophy. But as an ethnic Kachin - an ethnicity more than 1 million strong, famed for its fortitude while serving on the Allied side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Burma's War | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

Operating in separate divisions, the schools are more like collaborators than competitors. According to Walsh, he always alerts MIT coach Andy Barlow if, while recruiting, he comes across players who could be a good fit for the Engineers. Likewise, Walsh says, if the MIT coaches see someone heading for Division I, they tell Walsh and his staff...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Aldins Joins Crimson Coaching Staff | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...across the country and recruit, more than Division III,” Walsh said. “So if we go places and see people who would be a good fit for MIT, we let them know...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Aldins Joins Crimson Coaching Staff | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...while the phrase may be derived from MTV’s “Rob and Big,” it certainly seems to fit the Crimson’s situation. At first look, Harvard has a lot of work...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FOOTBALL '09: New Front-Line Faces Hit Ground Running | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

That includes the scientific community. Paleontologists aren't just interested in what dinosaurs looked and acted like; they also want to know how they fit into their environment. From what scientists already know about the ancient lake beds where Raptorex was originally found, for example, they know it had some stiff competition. "They would have co-existed with velociraptor-like dinosaurs," says Sereno - the human-scale carnivores that starred in Jurassic Park. But they would have hunted very differently: velociraptors, Sereno explains, "had long, grasping arms with clawed hands." They also had a large, sickle-shaped claw on their middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tiny T. Rex: Fossil Shows the Dino King Started Small | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

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