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Because of other commitments overseas, in Europe and Eastern Asia, and because the Pentagon is trying to limit Iraq tours to a year, the Army increasingly has had to rely on the National Guard and Army Reserve to help fill the roster of 150,000 troops in Iraq. Those part-time forces represent 40% of the current U.S. troop strength in Iraq and will grow to 50% in coming months. There were about 160,000 National Guard and Army reservists on active duty last week, including 60,000 inside Iraq. In a Dec. 20 memo published in the Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Are the New Recruits? | 1/10/2005 | See Source »

...college students living in Massachusetts, fewer members of fundamentalist religions that ban alcohol,” wrote Henry Wechsler, director of the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Studies Program, in an e-mail. “In addition, it is speculated that the cold winter weather may limit outdoor physical activity, and offer fewer recreational alternatives to drinking...

Author: By Katherine M. Gray, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bay State Drinking Rate Tops Average | 1/10/2005 | See Source »

...plan that gave him his first boost in the polls in well over a year. Here again, Letta played the role of political guarantor, assuring Economy Minister Domenico Siniscalco that the cuts would not put Italy's credit ratings at risk or push its deficit above the E.U. limit. In one of the few victories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Silvio's Lucky Charm | 1/9/2005 | See Source »

...heights of buildings in its bounds. Because the Square is part of this special zone, the City of Cambridge can also restrict—either by storefront feet or square footage—the kinds of businesses that occupy the Square. Cambridge could choose, if it wanted, to limit the number of banks that we look at every...

Author: By Susan E. Mcgregor, SUSAN E. MCGREGOR AND SUSAN E. MCGREGOR | Title: Buck the Banks | 1/7/2005 | See Source »

...outcomes (good and bad) we see after treatment of seemingly similar diseases. The longer I practice medicine, the more I believe in the greatness of God. The universe and our existence may be explained by laws of physics, but only up to a point. There will always be a limit to what physicists can explain with a formula. They, too, may become more religious with time. Talat Chughtai, M.D. Toronto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 1/3/2005 | See Source »

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