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...wouldn't say that we're any kind of threat to the national security. I will say that we try and get people on a like-minded level. If you have one guy running the country yet you have millions of people in that country, they already overpower him. You've just got to make them realize that. People can achieve more than they actually realize...
...these unimmunized kids know that as long as nearly all the other children get their shots, there should not be enough pathogen around to sicken anyone. But that's a fragile shield. Infectious-disease bugs continue to travel the globe, always ready to launch the next big public-health threat. Pockets of intentionally unvaccinated children provide a perfect place for a disease to squat, leading to outbreaks that spread to other unprotected kids, infants and the elderly. Ongoing measles outbreaks in four states are centered in such communities; one originated with an unimmunized boy from San Diego who contracted...
Readers looking for a detailed analysis of the role of Islam will be disappointed. While Kagan recognizes al-Qaeda-inspired terrorism as an ever present threat, he believes that modernity will ultimately triumph in the Middle East, and he dismisses the tenets of radical Islam as "a hopeless dream." As Kagan sees it, we live in "an age of divergence," with a return of great-power nationalism more akin to 19th century Europe than to the end of the cold war. He is under no illusions about the fundamental differences between the U.S. and its increasingly formidable rivals, Russia...
...world's worst violent crime. South Africa's police have been quick to blame the riots on the same criminals who, every 24 hours, murder an average of 52 people in South Africa. President Thabo Mbeki, whose official residence in Pretoria was burgled in May, has acknowledged the threat inequality presents, but insists his government is bridging the divisions of the past. More than a million new homes have been built since apartheid ended in 1994, and Mbeki has now named a high-level government committee to examine the causes of the violence. Yet critics insist Mbeki and his government...
...massive undertaking. Iraqi army forces viewed scenes of widespread destruction as they entered Sadr City. Roughly 10,000 Iraqi troops moved through block after block of burnt and shattered buildings. Iraqi army Humvees slogged through pools of standing water that could come to pose a serious health threat in the densely packed urban area as well...