Word: vietnamization
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...dengue isn't going away. Across Southeast Asia, doctors and public-health officials are grappling with alarmingly high dengue-infection rates. Cambodia and Vietnam reported double the cases this year compared with last, and more than 400 deaths; Thailand and Burma each recorded roughly a third more cases in 2007. The World Health Organization (WHO) says this is the fourth consecutive year of unusually high rates in the region - and doctors are worried that global warming may be partially to blame...
Several signatories said their own undergraduate experience when civil rights and Vietnam War protests were at their height made them particularly attuned to the lack of visible campus activism...
...sorts of adventures still cited today; the group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) sparked University Hall sit-ins disrupted by police force in 1968 and mobbed by the hundreds visiting then-U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara in 1967 to demand answers about the Vietnam War. But by the year of their graduation, their inability to effect real social and political change had somewhat exhausted those who entered in 1963 so full of hope. The Vietnam War dragged on, with the worst yet to come, and the civil rights movement had made only superficial gains...
...Group, whose nearby flagship bar-restaurant, the Foreign Correspondents Club, has long shed its roots as a rowdy journalist hangout to become a slick fixture on the tourist trail. If you fancy a tapeo - that's the Spanish term for a tapas bar crawl - then your next stop is Vietnam, where the group runs a branch of Pacharan in Ho Chi Minh City...
...Guts to Serve After reading Richard Corliss' article about recent war movies, I respectfully disagree with his assessment of Lions for Lambs [Nov. 26]. As a Vietnam veteran, I am always alert for unrealistic cinematic portrayals of the U.S. military. My take on Lions for Lambs is that it was about commitment - and the lack of it. The two college students who went to Afghanistan rather than graduate suggested that national service should be compulsory for all young Americans, an idea I agree with. Those students were contrasted with another student who was neither committed to nor excited by anything...