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...refugee camp on Sri Lanka's east coast, flicking the pages of a schoolbook, pencil by her side, she looks like a normal kid. And then you spot it: Jeevatharsini has no left arm. Through the hole in her dress where her upper arm should join her shoulder, a stump is just visible, the skin slightly puckered where the surgeon has stretched it back across the bone to stitch it together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Endless War | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...bombings in the province; this month there were five in one week, including one at a U.S. patrol base in the valley that killed one soldier and wounded 16 others. On certain streets in Buhriz, one of the worst villages in Diyala, U.S. forces face storms of mortars and shoulder-fired rockets from Sunni insurgents intent on turning it into the next Fallujah or Ramadi. Major Jeremy Siegrist, a cavalry commander working with a Stryker battalion, says more than 20 soldiers from his battalion of 800 men and women have died fighting in the city. "We've had a very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: The Small-Town War | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

...Scripture some 1,300 times. As for the rest of literature, when your seventh-grader reads The Old Man and the Sea, a teacher could tick off the references to Christ's Passion--the bleeding of the old man's palms, his stumbles while carrying his mast over his shoulder, his hat cutting his head--but wouldn't the thrill of recognition have been more satisfying on their/own...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case for Teaching The Bible | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...definitely a downer,” Vance says.“Last year, I thought that I was going to get to play shortstop, then I rip my shoulder and now it’s, ‘We’ll see.’ But that’s how Coach has done...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BASEBALL '07: Front and Center | 3/20/2007 | See Source »

...basepaths will be instrumental to Harvard’s success no matter where he hits in the lineup—and no matter where he plays in the field. So keeping Vance in centerfield for the time being, then alternating Stoeckel and Vance at shortstop as the shoulder heals, may be Harvard’s best...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BASEBALL '07: Front and Center | 3/20/2007 | See Source »

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