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...High Res In his review of the movie 300 [March 19] Lev Grossman wrote, "The Spartans were sick, scary fighters, brutally trained from childhood, the ancient equivalent of special forces." He should have stuck to the subject of his review without making backhanded insults about members of the armed forces. Grossman also called director Zack Snyder a "dork" for having read a comic book about the Battle of Thermopylae. Professional warriors in our armed forces read Thucydides, Clausewitz, Sun Tzu and Herodotus. I challenge Grossman to call those members of our military dorks. Walt Stachowicz, Inverness, Florida...
...tumor's activity reaches a certain threshold, it won't show up on the scan. So researchers are working on finding protein markers in the blood released by tumor cells that spread outside the colon; experts believe that cancer cells that venture outside the original tumor are equipped with special markers that could be detected, hopefully with something as simple as a blood test...
...High Res In his review of the movie 300 [March 12] Lev Grossman wrote, "The Spartans were sick, scary fighters, brutally trained from childhood, the ancient equivalent of special forces." He should have stuck to the subject of his review without making backhanded insults about members of the armed forces. Grossman also called director Zack Snyder a "dork" for having read a comic book about the Battle of Thermopylae. Professional warriors in our armed forces read Thucydides, Clausewitz, Sun Tzu and Herodotus. I challenge Grossman to call those members of our military dorks. Walt Stachowicz, INVERNESS, FLORIDA...
...neighbors Bangladesh and Sri Lanka - meant an early return home from the competition. After lambasting the players, Tiwari called on India's agriculture minister to resign, not forgetting, of course, that the relevant minister also sits on the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Leaving aside their special interests for a moment, Tiwari wrote that farm activists "termed this defeat as national shame...
Environmentalism is newly ascendant in America, urged on by the growing realization that the effects of climate change are likely to present the greatest threats to international development and our own quality of life over the next decades. The environment, long marginalized as a special interest, is becoming the galvanizing issue of this generation. The environmental problems that demand our attention today will only continue to multiply. It is imperative that we start thinking about them seriously...