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...Iraq for years yet. "The Iraqi forces are utterly feeble," the magazine notes. "At present, only some 5,000 of them are a match for the insurgents; perhaps as many as 12,000 are fairly self-sufficient. Most of the rest are unmotivated, unreliable, ill-trained, ill-equipped, prone to desertion, even ready to switch sides. If the Americans left today, they would be thrashed...
...those who need it most. What the rich countries can do is unilaterally remove the trade quotas and restrictions on goods and services that poor nations can provide to rich countries, thus directly enriching the people of underdeveloped countries. That type of assistance would be more efficient and less prone to corruption. Jose Brigoli Downingtown, Pennsylvania...
...more than fair—but skepticism does not demand obstinate opposition, it merely demands vigilance on behalf of higher moral principles. Bush has taken the first step, and it was in the right direction. It is now up to those of us, red or blue, who are prone to moral posturing to seize on the president’s words and force him, and America at large, to live up to them...
...those who need it most. What the rich countries can do is unilaterally remove the trade quotas and restrictions on goods and services that poor nations can provide to rich countries, thus directly enriching the people of underdeveloped countries. That type of assistance would be more efficient and less prone to corruption...
...with life (see story on page A32). A good education? Sorry, Mom and Dad, neither education nor, for that matter, a high IQ paves the road to happiness. Youth? No, again. In fact, older people are more consistently satisfied with their lives than the young. And they're less prone to dark moods: a recent survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that people ages 20 to 24 are sad for an average of 3.4 days a month, as opposed to just 2.3 days for people ages 65 to 74. Marriage? A complicated picture: married people...