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...between 18 and 27 years of age who meet minimal health requirements must present themselves for compulsory army service. University attendance allows people to be exempted only if the school requires military training in order to graduate. Men who do not serve (and do not have a good reason for being exempted from duty) do not qualify for international passports and related documents issued by the government. It's easy to be caught and summarily sent off to service because government-issued documentation must be carried at all times. "They checked my papers at the metro station in Chisty Prudy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Dodge the Draft in Russia | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

While her organization advises families how to avoid conscription, Kuznetsova says she wants Russia to have a professional military. "I want the boys to actually learn proper military training, and also to be paid, it should consist of people that want to be there." At present, however, the military is a nightmare zone. The Russian army is infamous for hazing. One horrific incident in 2005 left a 19-year-old without legs or genitals. But countless beatings are believed to go unreported. The New Times, a weekly magazine, reported that 471 people serving in the armed forces died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Dodge the Draft in Russia | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

...sequence, the revised requirements will be grounded by a pair of introductory level courses—Astronomy 16: “Stellar and Planetary Astronomy,” and Astronomy 17: “Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy”—that resemble the introductory couplings already present in the Physics, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Life Sciences concentrations. Both courses in the new introductory pairing will use only single variable calculus, and will provide a rigorous survey of astrophysics—addressing “everything from black holes to the Big Bang,” according...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Astrophysics Rethinks Requirements | 3/29/2009 | See Source »

...Berlin police spokesman Michael Merkle tells TIME that the city's investigators are now checking whether they also use cotton swabs from Greiner Bio-One. "A consequence of the present case may be to start randomly checking the cotton swabs we are supplied with for traces of DNA - which, in turn, harbors the risk of contaminating them," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany's Phantom Serial Killer: A DNA Blunder | 3/27/2009 | See Source »

...present chastening can't mean turning into a nation of overcautious, unambitious scaredy-cats. This is the moment for business to think different and think big. The great dying off of quintessentially 20th century businesses presents vast opportunity for entrepreneurs. People will still need (greener) cars, still want to read quality journalism, still listen to recorded music and all the rest. And so as some of the huge, dominant, old-growth trees of our economic forest fall, the seedlings and saplings - that is, the people burning to produce and sell new kinds of transportation and media in new, economic ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of Excess: Is This Crisis Good for America? | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

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