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...tested magazine structure. I'm well aware that at this point, far too much money and time have been invested to revert to the old order, but the magazine now feels like a sellout to tabloid-size pictures and overzealous fonts. TIME can look forward, but don't lose sight of what you have left behind. Jason Zimmerman, PITTSBURGH...
...forward operating base and descended on Qubah. At the same time, a convoy of humvees and Bradleys rumbled toward the action. More than 200 troops emerged from the choppers at the edge of Qubah, and the Apaches began strafing targeted insurgent positions. Street fights broke out as insurgents caught sight of the Americans. Qubah was largely secured not long after daybreak, with U.S. soldiers marking numbers on the necks of men and hands of women to keep track of residents during lockdown. Some 16 insurgents lay dead, but the bloodshed would continue through Sunday. The Apaches would kill 12 more...
...Qalowasa is not the only one to receive such threats, a product of the tensions created by Fiji's vast squatter settlements. Out of sight of the tiny Pacific nation's internationally famous resorts with their manicured grounds, picture-postcard beaches and beaming staff, a swathe of desperate humanity resides in flimsy and illegally built shanties, without sewerage, running water, electricity or garbage disposal. This mainly Indo-Fijian underclass represents more than 10 per cent of the country's 900,000 population. A third of them have no income at all; four out of five lack the means to provide...
...Koski remains critical of the job review boards are doing throughout the country. He said he sees no end in sight to conflict between professors and regulators...
...retells the poignant story of the compiler of the 16,000-page Great Chinese-Japanese Classical Dictionary, who saw the proofs of 12 of his 13 volumes reduced to ash during the firebombing of Tokyo in 1945, yet started the epic all over again, even as he lost all sight in his right eye and most in his left. One Japanese word for the rainy season, baiu, can be written out to suggest the scent of "plum rain," Dalby informs us-or to refer to the smell of "mold rain." Poetry and practicality, in other words, converge...