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There are about 160,000 U.S. troops now in Iraq, a number U.S. commanders in the region plan to maintain at least through the Iraqi national assembly elections on Dec. 15. But the battalion commanders, according to sources close to last week's meeting, said that because there are not enough troops, they have to "leapfrog" around Iraq to keep insurgents from returning to towns that have been cleared out. The officers also stressed that the lack of manpower--rather than of protective armor or signal jammers--posed one of the biggest obstacles in dealing with roadside bombs, which have...
Winthrop HoCo Chair Carrie H. Petri ’06, who is also a Crimson editor, said that while each House wanted to maintain its own sense of character, joint purchasing cut costs...
...Japan and Korea are prime examples of highly industrialized nations trying to hold onto an identity that is rooted in an agrarian past. The two countries maintain some of the highest barriers to an imported food staple in the world. South Korea maintains a strict quota that limits rice imports to just 4% of the country's total annual consumption. About 7% of Japanese consumption is accounted for by imported rice, but hardly any of it actually reaches supermarkets. Much of it is stuffed into government surplus warehouses or passed on to other countries as food aid. Foreign rice that...
...More convincingly, some agricultural officials in Tokyo caution that the countryside must be protected from development to maintain the aesthetic appeal of the shimmering paddies. The land would be ravaged by typhoons without well-tended rice fields, which act as sponges during heavy rains and are a buffer against erosion, according to farmers. "The rice paddies prevent floods and landslides and maintain the Japanese landscape," says Masahiro Konno, general manager at the WTO office of Japan's Central Union of Agricultural Co-operatives. "A destruction of the rice farm will destroy agriculture in Japan...
...elite swimmers in the league, garnering two individual wins in the 100 backstroke (in which he set a pool record) and the 200 backstroke, and leading the 200-yard medley team to victory. In the increasingly competitive Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League (EISL), the Crimson must fight even harder to maintain its dominance. The Lions finished fourth in the league last year, but this season have defeated both Harvard and Yale and boast a strong freshman class. “I don’t think that we underperformed in this meet,” Wollner said. “Columbia...