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...unfortunate that the media speaks as if only one man, Saddam Hussein, lived in the state of Iraq. Unfortunate also that U.S. foreign policy is almost always directed at this individual, to the neglect of the Iraqi people. Hussein could not have planned it any better himself. Every day he becomes a more entrenched part of Iraq's national identity, and it becomes more difficult for the Iraqi people to oust him from power...
...says the advisory group wants to make sure professors "don't spend so much time [on outside activities] that they neglect students here...
...with "many dotcom people, as with many entrepreneurs," notes Bernard, is that "too often they are in love with the idea but not the implementation." By and large, they've done a great job marketing their sites and proving there's demand for what they do, but then they neglect the housekeeping chores necessary to run the business and fulfill their promises to their customers, such as hiring enough production managers, says Dale Kutnick, CEO of the Meta Group, a technology-research and advisory firm...
Wait a minute. Why, then, are more than one-third of Americans seriously overweight? Here the report provides what is probably the most important insight of all. While we may not gain as much as we think in winter, we routinely neglect to take off our fresh fat in spring. We allow the pounds to accumulate year after year in tiny increments we hardly notice--until we try to stuff ourselves into our old jeans. Call it stealth flab. Indeed, the massive once-a-decade National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey concurs. It shows that over a 10-year period...
...province in western India still redolent of premodern customs: sandstone palaces, bejeweled maharajas, turbaned men leading camels across the desert. The condition of women there is often wretched. There are just 910 women for every 1,000 men, a result of female feticide and infanticide as well as sheer neglect and malnutrition--and barely 20% of them are literate. Spousal abuse, child marriage and mistreatment of daughters are all common. "This is a movement to strengthen the democracy," Srivastava says of her protests. "It is a long journey, but it is bright...