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...Amarnath killings have been added to a long list of grievances against the Indian security forces, who pretty much run Srinagar on their own - they have wide powers to shoot, arrest and search without fear of repercussions - while Indian and Pakistani politicians and bureaucrats ponder their next moves. The recent rape and murder of two young girls in the town of Shopian, allegedly by Indian soldiers, is the latest outrage. Bashir Dabla, a professor of sociology at Kashmir University who has studied the social impact of the 20-year conflict, says that young people feel abandoned as the issue drags...
...seemingly forever, Pakistan has been a state failing in myriad ways. Yet even by its ever treacherous standards, what has occurred over a very bloody recent week is depressing. Bombs in bazaars, assaults on the army - whether you are protected (soldiers) or not (shoppers), the militants are declaring, We can get at you. It's as if the country is becoming the hell Iraq was at its worst. The devil is not in the details - al-Qaeda's involvement, where the extremists are, how to retaliate. It's in Islamabad's broad, historical abdication of any government's most essential...
...Technology has also helped Geisinger hold down costs while making doctors' lives easier. Geisinger began installing electronic health-records systems in 1996 and since then has invested about $120 million in wiring its sites. On a recent morning, Dr. Nancy Grauso-Eby, a pediatrician working on the Danville campus, opened the record of a 4-year-old boy coming in because of an earache, and his entire history, from birth, popped up on her screen. So did a yellow alert that recommended the boy participate in a study called Garden Gang, a pilot program designed to teach kids...
JULIAN BOND, chairman of the NAACP, during an Oct. 11 speech in which he urged African Americans to support the right of gays to wed. A recent Pew Research Center poll found that two-thirds of black Protestants oppose same-sex marriage...
Drinking four glasses of alcoholic beverages a week can significantly reduce a woman’s chances of becoming pregnant through in vitro fertilization, a recent study conducted by researchers at the Harvard Medical School suggests. The study was headed by Dr. Brooke V. Rossi, a clinical fellow in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital...