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Adam Capulong, 17, who sports the collared shirt and tie required for boys at this racially diverse urban magnet school, adores the class. "It brings all aspects of math together," says the straight-A student, who is hoping to go to Harvard. But the challenging college-level course is just one small serving on an academic plate that he has heaped with five additional AP courses, including AP French, AP English Literature and AP Art History. That's on top of the three AP courses he took as a junior and one as a sophomore. Capulong's fellow senior Nayla...
...Kent's analogy to the 25-day battle in 1968 to wrest control of the old Vietnamese colonial capital from guerrilla insurgents may be somewhat unfortunate, however. Although Hue has entered Marine lore as an example of a triumph of urban warfare, made more vivid by its recreation in Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket," a favorite movie on Marine bases, the wider context of Hue may give pause for thought - or even alarm. To be sure, the enemy the Marines are facing in the fierce fighting for Fallujah that began overnight Monday may be not dissimilar from the once...
...battle to dislodge an estimated 3,000-4,000 insurgents from an urban area will necessarily be bloody, and involve civilian casualties - even if much of the civilian population has already fled. Although U.S. and Iraqi forces have acted to minimize the negative publicity of such casualties by seizing control of the city's main hospital overnight on Monday - previously a source of many televised claims that coalition forces had inflicted civilian casualties - many Iraqi and international actors invested in the transition process remain concerned that a frontal assault on Fallujah could have the opposite political effect...
...real lure of Mongolia, of course, is the chance to roam endless fields of wild grasses and edelweiss. After all, what could be more luxurious to an urban dweller than lots of room? "Time after time, a guy from the city will take off running into the fields amazed by the space," says Cashell. Accommodation starts from $30 a night; see mongolianresorts.com for more details...
Education: B.A. Harvard, 1963; M.I.A. Columbia, 1966; Ph.D. Columbia, 1971. Day Job: President of The Urban Institute...