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...State Department. She said, “With the ever-increasing ease of world-wide communication and international cooperation, it is more important than ever for students to become well-versed in foreign languages.” Chaput added, “Given that Harvard is a training ground for people who will become some of the top specialists in their fields, it is essential that Harvard retain diversity in language offerings. Specialists can’t be specialists if they don’t know the languages of the areas they study.” Budget constraints have also...

Author: By Julie M Zauzer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Slavic Language Classes Cut Due to Budget | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

...citizens - would agree with Marrero. In 2007, more than 7,000 of them filed a federal suit, Sanchez v. United States, claiming that in the nearly 60 years after World War II that the Navy used a portion of the island as a firing range and weapons-testing ground it negligently exposed Vieques' population of 10,000 to dangerous levels of toxins. The community, according to several independent medical studies, has a cancer rate 30 times higher than that of Puerto Rico's main island to the west. The U.S. Justice Department has filed a motion to dismiss the suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toxic Chemicals at Vieques: Is U.S. Accountable? | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

...thought to be hiding across the border in Pakistan, moving between the towns of Quetta and Zob in the scorched Baluchistan desert. Nowadays, though, the Taliban encompasses a vast and disparate array of players. A look at who they are is key to understanding why they are gaining ground against 63,000 U.S. troops and their NATO partners after eight years of guerrilla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Taliban's Resurgence in Afghanistan | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

...live with it. Sure we could swish some ionized water around to clear the bowl, but then we would have to drink down the entire concoction of oatmeal, cheese, water, and a few errant twigs and clumps of dirt. God forbid we dump it on the ground, and a squirrel should stumble upon a non-native food. Our diet was incredibly limited, and vegetarians be warned—if you don’t eat pepperoni your only lunch will be gruyère cheese...for days...and days...and days. Of course, our specially prepared trail mix helped...

Author: By Kate A Borowitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: One Unhappy Camper | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

...India, and it suspects Iran of allowing its territory to be used by Indian-backed Baluch separatist fighters in southwestern Pakistan. Tehran, for its part, has repeatedly complained to Islamabad about cross-border attacks mounted by Jundullah, a shadowy Baluch militant group that uses Pakistani Baluchistan as a staging ground for attacks inside Iran. On May 28, the group claimed responsibility for a bombing that killed at least 20 in the border town of Zahedan. Iran and Pakistan have also been at loggerheads over Afghanistan - Tehran has backed the Karzai government, and Pakistan is seen as continuing to covertly support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran Sanctions: Why Pakistan Won't Help | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

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