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...United Nations oil-for-food scandal is about to get nastier and more personal. Sources tell TIME that the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Minnesota's Norm Coleman, will soon make public the names of prominent individuals from several countries who received lucrative and oh-so-illegal oil contracts from Saddam Hussein in violation of the U.N. program designed to keep the Iraqi people from starving while depriving their dictator of cash. Although the names of scores of rumored recipients have been circulating for more than a year, this week the subcommittee is expected to begin releasing...
...chicken-pox vaccine introduced in the U.S. in 1995 has cut infections, and the number of deaths per year from the childhood disease is down from 145 to 66. But some doctors are worried it could also lead to an increase in shingles, a related but even nastier disease. Adults exposed to kids with chicken pox tend to be protected against shingles, but now there will be fewer infected children around to help. The kids, however, as they age, may be resistant to shingles...
...admitted that this state of affairs is a disappointment, given his promise to unite and not divide. In an interview with TIME in August, he blamed the rancor on entrenched special interests, as though he were more victim than leader. Washington, he said, turned out to be a nastier place than Texas. But it is natural when the lines are so tightly drawn that neither side wants to hand the other a victory that it can take to the voters next time around...
...simply tactical, but strategic. By closing down the political track of dialogue with the nationalists, Putin has committed himself to pursuit of a military victory. And not only has such a victory proved elusive; its pursuit has seen the Chechen insurgency evolve into something a lot nastier and more dangerous. Then again, Chechens blowing up airliners and taking children hostage simply compounds anti-Chechen militancy among ordinary Russians, and that translates, once again, into political support for Putin's hard line. The Russian president's "war on terror," then, and the Chechen rebels' war on Russia, may have simply become...
That's not the only place that could get nastier as the handover approaches. A senior coalition official told TIME that the insurgents are showing more coordination and sophistication than they did just a few months ago. And U.S. commanders fear that the insurgents have set their sights on Baghdad, in hopes of sabotaging the June 30 transfer of power. "You can't be sovereign if you can't control your own capital," says a senior military source. "That's where the action is going to be as we get closer to June...