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...continued," he says. "But it's not for want of trying." While the A.F.P.'s 25th-anniversary year has been a fast treadmill, the results have continued to come. In Suva, Fijian police, the A.F.P. and other agencies seized chemicals that could have been used to produce a metric ton of crystal methamphetamine; Operation Auxin identified more than 700 Australians suspected of using child pornography online; a joint center for police cooperation was established in Jakarta, and a terrorist plot to disrupt its opening was thwarted. But the modest and diplomatic Keelty deflects praise from himself to those he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Long Arm of the Law | 12/21/2004 | See Source »

...didn't think they were getting a ton of opportunities," Donato said. "But it did seem that, when they did, they cashed in on them...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Merrimack Stuns M. Hockey in Consolation Round | 12/21/2004 | See Source »

...need to prime the credit card for a decent three-course lunch in Ho Chi Minh City: the streets of Vietnam's southern capital are lined with choice selections from the country's larder, available for marvelously small sums. Take a stroll from Ben Thanh market, along Le Thanh Ton street, and stop off at a street-side phó bo stall for your appetizer. Vietnam's signature dish of beef noodles - flavored with star anise, cilantro (coriander) and fish sauce - is a soupy snip at 30? per bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Courses in Economics | 12/19/2004 | See Source »

...chaos of postwar Iraq forced U.S. troops to wage alleyway fights with insurgents while trying to rebuild a war-torn nation--neither of which can be accomplished in 70-ton M1 tanks. Instead, commanders turned to the successor to the jeep, the 20-year-old High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), as the humvee is officially known. With canvas doors and a skimpy skin of sheet metal, most humvees are designed to move small numbers of troops quickly. After a 1993 mine blast killed four U.S. soldiers in Somalia in their thin-skinned humvee, the Army began buying armored versions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Safe Are Our Troops? | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...need to prime the credit card for a decent three-course lunch in Ho Chi Minh City: the streets of Vietnam's southern capital are lined with choice selections from the country's larder, available for marvelously small sums. Take a stroll from Ben Thanh market, along Le Thanh Ton street, and stop off at a street-side phó bo stall for your appetizer. Vietnam's signature dish of beef noodles-flavored with star anise, cilantro and fish sauce-is a soupy snip at $0.30 per bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amuse Bouche | 12/6/2004 | See Source »

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