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...effective Afghan security force capable of fighting the Taliban. Desertion rates are high - 1 in 4 soldiers trained last year, by some accounts. So are rates of drug addiction. Most important, the most effective elements of the military are dominated by ethnic Tajiks, which does little to help win support of the Pashtuns, the country's largest ethnic group and the one among which the insurgency is based. Unlike Iraq, Afghanistan had no powerful army or strong state before the U.S. went in - nor does it have the oil wealth that allows Iraq to pay for its own armed forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Flawed Assumptions of Obama's Afghan Surge | 12/6/2009 | See Source »

MCPOOP and other projects are eager to help on the supply side. "We're going to have plenty," predicts Rathmann. "Tons of tourists come to West Marin, and they all leave us their poop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Humanure: Goodbye, Toilets. Hello, Extreme Composting | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...legislation now making its way through both houses of Congress would do some things well. It would cover almost all of the roughly 33 million legal residents of this country who now lack health insurance. And a vast expansion of Medicaid, coupled with billions of dollars in subsidies to help low- and middle-income Americans buy insurance, would help ensure that most people end up spending less on their health bills, according to a new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Congress's independent scorekeepers. (See 10 players in health-care reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Care Reform: What Happened to Cost Controls? | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...wire, sandbags and closed-circuit TV cameras and hire armed guards. Some even went so far as to put snipers on their roofs. Schools like Ali's can afford such measures, she says. But government schools are out of luck. The federal government is doing little, critics say, to help pay for the extra security measures it says are necessary for schools to remain open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pakistani Taliban's War on Schoolchildren | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...government has been able to capitalize on this; its tight-fisted response to paying for school security - in essence, it doesn't - has angered parents and teachers alike. One judge on the influential Lahore High Court dismissed a petition from the Private School Owners Association for more government help by saying schools should arrange for their own security. "Everything should not be left to the government," said Justice Mian Saqib Nisar. "Every citizen should play his due role for the betterment of the society. I would impose a fine if such frivolous petitions were filed in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pakistani Taliban's War on Schoolchildren | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

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