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...none of whom had the slightest chance of facing violent death in combat--illuminated their campus by torching Old Glory. I was appalled by the sight. A short time later, Walter Cronkite informed the world that my unit, the 101st Airborne, was beginning an offensive in the A Shau Valley. I left for Vietnam the next day to confront an enemy that undoubtedly would have punished those protesters had they burned the North Vietnamese flag in Hanoi...
...pictures of Afghanistan's dangerous Korengal Valley...
Every year, fishermen in this coastal state of Vargas carry statues of the Virgin of the Valley in a traditional procession meant to bring peace and health. But now, they're using the "patron saint of the fishermen" to help prepare for something far from peaceful - a guerilla war against a U.S. invasion that President Hugo Chavez insists Washington is actively plotting. To prepare for a gringo attack, the Armed Forces and members of coastal communities recently stuffed three statues of virgins normally reserved for Catholic holidays with rifles and mortars to be used in a simulated ambush. The activity...
...change--and extraordinary excess--in Mangalore. The fastest-growing industry is education. During the 1980s, higher education became the only way out of a broken system for many frustrated young Indians. The best doctors and computer engineers had a fighting chance of nabbing a lucrative job offer from Silicon Valley or Manhattan. So boys and girls throughout India streamed into colleges and institutes, where they studied calculus and organic chemistry with a passion that was probably unrivaled anywhere in the world. In recent years, the trend has accelerated. Mangalore had one medical college when I left; it now has five...
That promise is luring others home. When Samant left school 20 years ago, any Indian with ambition and means got out, and Samant followed a well-trodden path to Stanford and on to Oracle in California's Silicon Valley. Then in 1991 Singh, at the time the country's Finance Minister, began to open up India, dismantling a creaking socialist command economy that had chained India to poverty and stagnation since independence. Samant returned home with a mad new plan: to make wine in a country where alcohol was taboo and the closest thing to sophisticated intoxication was hooch. Thirteen...