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...span of 11 minutes, seven bombs ripped through the packed first-class carriages of commuter trains in Bombay last Tuesday. The force of the explosions split the carriages open and hurled passengers onto the tracks. Bruised, broken and bloodied, many made it to the hospitals. Many others who were in the centers of the carriages ended up at the morgue. More than 180 were killed and 700 wounded in India's worst terrorist attack since...
...Still, this crisis began with two security breakdowns on his watch - the army's failure to prevent militants from taking Israeli soldiers captive twice in a three-week span - and the military operation has not gone entirely smoothly. The IDF has been surprised by the potency of some of Hizballah's weapons, including a sophisticated missile that hit a navy ship on Saturday. More rockets killed eight people in Haifa on Sunday, and Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah has promised more "surprises...
...Just as critical, this generation has benefited from medical care addressing the heart and gastrointestinal defects, eye problems, thyroid issues, obesity and other health woes that, for reasons that are poorly understood, often tag along with mental retardation as part of Down syndrome. The result: their average expected life span has doubled, from 25 in 1983 to 56 today. And as adults, they have had the Americans with Disabilities Act ensuring them a right to be accommodated in the workplace where possible...
...Harvard University Personnel Manual states that employees may take unpaid leaves of absence that span 30 consecutive calendar days or more. Personal leaves of absence may either be short term—lasting from 31 to 90 days—or long term...
...span of four years, the Administration has been forced to rethink the doctrine with which it hoped to remake the world as the strategy's ineffectiveness is exposed by the very policies it prescribed. The swaggering Commander in Chief who embodied the doctrine's aspirations has modulated himself too. At a press conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair in May, Bush swore off the Wild West rhetoric of getting enemies "dead or alive," conceding that "in certain parts of the world, it was misinterpreted." Bush's response to the North Korean missile test was equally revealing. Under...