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...Peace Signs Re "Give peace a number" [June 18]: the Economist Intelligence Unit's Global Peace Index ranks the peacefulness of countries based on violent crimes and soldiers killed overseas. It would be interesting to see a more positive index rating, such as the "most generous and compassionate countries in the world." Charles Wolan, NIEDERWIL, SWITZERLAND...
...goals on the country’s youth. Unlike in the U.S., where the standard high-achieving teenager likely wants to attend college, type A Israelis fall into a number of different groups. Some want to go to the army: to work in the intelligence, in an elite commando unit, or as a pilot. For these people, the unit they want becomes their Harvard. They train for it physically and mentally. And, like Harvard, many who try to reach these units are not accepted. For others, attending college first is the aim. But even then, the process is not simply...
...authorities fear that the Continent may be heading down the same path from which the U.S. has just started to emerge. Some admit that they are badly unprepared for what's happening. "It's caught us by surprise," says Carel Edwards, head of the European Commission's drug coordination unit in Brussels...
...Atlantic in July. They will also coordinate military and police patrols at sea to try to intercept Latin American drug vessels before they reach Africa or Europe. "Whichever warship is nearest will take the vessel and the drugs to Portugal," says Edwards, of the European Commission's drug unit...
...affidavit, Razak says that after the Mongolian showed up in town, he confided in a high-level security officer who worked for Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak. Then, on October 19, according to Razak's affidavit, the think-tank head called a police officer associated with a high-level unit that provided security for top Malaysian leaders to tell him that Shaariibuu was standing outside the gate of his house, a car with three police agents pulled up and took the Mongolian woman away. Several witnesses saw Shaariibuu entering the vehicle. That was the last Abdul Razak says he ever...