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...Unlike Iraq, with its broad and flat highways, Afghanistan has relatively few roads, many of which pass through narrow mountain passes and over relatively weak bridges. "It can be pretty tough to maneuver," Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told troops in South Korea last week. "I've talked to troops that have gotten stuck in places that they didn't expect to get stuck in." (See a video of the soldier's experience in Afghanistan and Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Forces Get New Protection in Afghanistan | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...read memoirs? I have read some. I don't read a lot of memoirs. I'm very narrow in all my interests. I am cut from the same cloth as my older, Aspergian brother and probably Aspergian father. If I could, I would eat the same exact thing every day. It would be just protein bars and nothing else, no deviation ever. (See pictures of crazy Christmas traditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author Augusten Burroughs | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...Speaking to TIME from her home in New Jersey, Susan Cohen - whose daughter Theodora would have been 41 next month had she not died on the flight - says al-Megrahi's trial was "narrow in its scope, and it's right that we now look further." Although she's frustrated that it has taken so long for another review of the case, she's not worn out by the protracted search for justice. "You can never be too exhausted when searching for the murderers of your child," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lockerbie: Will a Fresh Look Find New Evidence? | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...AHIP report was the kind of one-sided study that lobbyists sometimes commission to create scary sound bites. It worked. The report analyzed the impact of four narrow features of the Senate Finance bill using a worst-case-scenario model; it concluded, as Ignagni says, that "health care costs [would] increase far faster and higher than they would under the current system." A fairer reading of the bill, which cleared the Finance Committee on Oct. 13 with a 14-9 vote, with one Republican supporter, suggests these projected costs are wildly exaggerated. Other provisions of the bill are aimed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health-Care Grudge Match! | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...third period, captain Alex Biega fired a slapshot off freshman Conor Morrison’s pass to narrow...

Author: By Courtney D. Skinner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Late Goal Ends Contest in 3-3 Draw | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

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