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...Platoon's Story "Portrait of a Platoon" was a thought-provoking article about the U.S. Army in Iraq [Dec. 29-Jan. 5]. Members of the 1st Armored Division's Survey Platoon, nicknamed the Tomb Raiders, felt like my family after I read TIME's profiles of them. They are the best and brightest. Every American should be proud of them. The account of how TIME journalists Michael Weisskopf and James Nachtwey were injured after Weisskopf grabbed a grenade thrown into their humvee, saving the lives of several soldiers, gave sharp insight into what is really going on in Iraq...
...Thailand, business disputes are often settled out of court, sometimes murderously. Economist Chris Baker, who helped conduct a survey for the World Bank, said most Thai businessmen don't trust the legal system, because they believe courts and cops can be bought. "Violence was quite a big option," says Baker. The country has an estimated thousand or so professional gunmen who earn their livings mainly by "solving" business conflicts. Few are ever caught. Shortly after Nopdol's arrest, Thaksin told the press that fingerprint evidence showed that more than one person was involved in Hangthong's death. Instructing police...
...Crimson survey found that 80 percent of Harvard students reported “feeling depressed” at some point in the last year. But the author confuses feeling depressed with clinical depression, a serious mental illness, and goes on to make the absurd and wholly unsupported statement that 80 percent of Harvard students “struggled with mental health problems” last year. Feeling depressed occasionally is not a mental health problem; it’s just part of being human...
...article stated that 10 percent of Harvard students have seriously contemplated suicide, and one percent have made an attempt; these rates are nearly identical to those found in nationwide survey of college students...
...Asia, there is no program in place to systematically sample migratory birds to determine which viruses they carry. In Europe, virologist Albert Osterhaus of Erasmus University in the Netherlands has launched a survey in which fecal samples are submitted from around the continent for testing. "We've found the proteins that indicate the presence of various avian influenzas," says Osterhaus. The prevalence of viruses in migratory birds may have been responsible for an avian-flu outbreak in the Netherlands last year that infected 80 people, killing one. The virus responsible, an H7, which was less deadly than the H5 strain...