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...Shriners organization in Los Angeles. It wanted to help the girl. With clues from Yuri's notebooks and the assistance of his contacts in several relief organizations, we located the girl, Insha Afsar, 7, in a camp in Kamsar, just north of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan. TIME news director Howard Chua-Eoan personally paid for her to travel to the U.S. with her father for treatment. The Shriners arranged for free medical care for her, while the Heal the Children Foundation found a family in Connecticut to put up Insha and her father. She has since been fitted with a special prosthesis...
There is value in listening to what voters have to say outside the scripted settings of a big campaign. Vermont's then Governor Howard Dean, a physician, intended to center his 2004 campaign on health-care issues, but the more he talked to Democratic voters in Iowa, the more he realized that their passions were being stirred by the Iraq war. Hammering home his opposition to the war turned Dean--briefly--into the front runner, bringing in a flood of contributions over the Internet...
...DIED. E. Howard Hunt, 88, aide to Richard Nixon who engineered the Watergate break-in; in Miami. A CIA operative from 1949 to '70 and the author of more than 80 spy novels, Hunt served 33 months in prison for his role in the scandal, which exploded when one of the burglars was found to have Hunt's White House telephone number in his address book. Hunt had previously helped orchestrate another famous break-in, at the office of the psychiatrist treating Daniel Ellsberg, the defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon papers. In 1997 Hunt declared bankruptcy, blaming, among other...
...feet on alternative energy" without recognizing that taxpayers should be grateful, since venture capitalists are pouring billions into green technologies. Free markets work. Low-priced oil increases greenhouse gases; high-priced oil leads to economically viable alternatives. We tilt at windmills when we ignore this simple economic fact. Howard Sierer St. Julians, Malta
...Massachusetts Department of Public Health and later turned over to researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health for independent analysis. “Cigarettes are finely-tuned drug delivery devices, designed to perpetuate a tobacco pandemic,” one of the study’s leaders, Howard Koh, associate dean for public health practice at HSPH, said in a statement. Researchers found that the increase held across the board, without regard to cigarette type or manufacturer, and that these increases occurred without any warning to consumers. Tobacco companies used a variety of methods including design modification and increased...