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...first time in nearly three decades, this dwindling group of outcasts are completely surrounded by the Lao government troops that hunt them. They are trapped in a narrow swath of jungle, with all avenues of escape blocked by either soldiers or antipersonnel mines. "This time," says Moua Toua Ther, 46, the one-armed leader of the camp and commander of its pitifully equipped fighting force, "we will not be able to run or hide. When the helicopters come we will be butchered like wild animals...
...prestigious journals is the primary goal of scientists. In a commentary in the journal Nature last month, a prominent editor of scientific journals wrote about how the obsession to publish in the top journals such as Nature, Science or Cell has sometimes eroded the quality of work produced. The narrow self-interest that pushes scientists to focus on a handful of prestigious journals also prevents them from publishing negative results. Until publishing negative results helps scientists advance their careers, we can expect them to continue focusing on the positive...
...course, with its 6,623 yards of narrow, tree-lined fairways and quick greens seemed well-suited to Harvard’s controlled style of play. The sun, shining for the first time all season, and temperatures in the middle 70s provided a perfect backdrop. Scoring conditions were, simply put, the best the team had seen all spring...
...well. His lips and his chin and his clenched right fist are indeterminate and open to interpretation. His eyes are clear and asymmetrical, but it is unclear whether they are haunted, surprised or amused. Context beyond the suggestion of a nursing home in the background might have helped to narrow down these emotional options; however, the inability to categorize the man’s expression so quickly prevents the viewer from dismissing the man himself as a kind of archetype. The sensibility of this photograph reveals a depth and potential to Dichtel’s composition beyond much...
Reading Phoebe Kosman’s recent column “Just One Word: Plastics,” I found myself frustrated with the author’s narrow view of acceptable career paths ( April 23 ). Not cut out to be an investment banker? That’s fine, and it doesn’t mean that grocery bagger (which, I hasten to add, most certainly does count as a career for many people not so fortunate as Kosman; her dig there counts not as humor but as classism) is the only option left...