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...Although the U.S. will very likely seek to punish the Taliban for hosting Bin Laden in Afghanistan, Afghanistan long ago ceased to function as a state. The Taliban are simply its dominant militia, and to the people of Kabul, they are outside occupiers...
...Laden's operatives and how does his network function...
...hydra, begetting yet more crime. Through legalization, huge savings can be realized from crime reduction. Revenues gleaned from taxing legal profits can be used for antidrug research, and standardized products will reduce drug deaths. Governments formerly beneath the heel of drug cartels can once again begin to function for their own constituents. DONALD H. RUDICK, M.D. St. Marys...
...ticket-takers with a four-member posse in tow (somehow I imaged Busta with a much bigger posse); a few minutes later I nearly ran into Jon Bon Jovi in the hallway, wearing a big cowboy hat (he's taller than you might expect, but that could be a function of the hat, which gave him the illusion of actual height...
...physicians use a "functional brain scan" to measure a general loss in function. "This is often useful in persuading the patient that something is wrong," says Dr. Stephen Read, a Los Angeles psychiatrist. But the scan can't make fine distinctions between, say, the ability to pay bills and trade stocks...