Word: scopes
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...they fought with very different weapons. The Army captain carried a special scope that enabled him, while hiding several miles away, to fix on elements of an Iraqi artillery battalion south of Arbil, moving toward the city. With U.S. and Kurdish troops blocking the way, the Army officer radioed targeting information on his scope to Air Force air-traffic controllers. They sent B-52s packing a flurry of 2,000-lb. bombs to push the Iraqis 10 miles back down the road. Several U.S. officials who worked on coordinating air strikes for special-forces teams told TIME that often...
Blair will not go down in history as the only reporter to fudge a line or two. If the scope of his misdeeds seems astounding, his behavior should be put in context. People must cope on a daily basis with the news media's half-truths, tainted and slanted stories and outright censorship. Blair's scandal is only a very small part of that. The public should tolerate none of it. DAVID C. HOFFMEISTER Easton...
...many ethical compromises forced upon China's doctors by an authoritarian government. Obstetricians under orders from bureaucrats perform late-term abortions, and psychiatrists commit sane political dissidents to mental institutions. In March and April, hundreds of doctors knew that Party officials were risking lives by denying the scope of the SARS epidemic. Only one, 71-year-old military doctor Jiang Yanyong, went public with damning information. His colleagues, meanwhile, abetted a scheme to hide SARS patients in Beijing from World Health Organization inspectors. "Medicine is supposed to be the most ethical profession," says Qiu Renzhong, a medical ethicist...
Meanwhile, University President Lawrence H. Summers continues to promote a series of initiatives in the pipeline for next year that would fulfill his vow to vastly strengthen the state of life science research at the University. While Summers refuses to describe the scope and nature of these initiatives, their price will be in the tens—if not hundreds—of millions of dollars...
From the smaller questions of pedagogy and specialization to the larger concerns of the College’s place in the global community, Harvard’s curricular reforms have been both broad and narrow in scope, gradual and sudden, momentous and inconsequential...