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Students after the Vietnam War applied to history graduate programs in droves, Kloppenberg said...
...occasion, such shipments have been intercepted in foreign waters. In 2004, says the report, customs officials in Vietnam, Taiwan and the Philippines were tipped off about three shipments from Rajin to the South Korean port of Pusan. As a result, the report notes, some factories in Rajin simply switched to shipping consignments via a port in Russia...
...same time, a new report-paid for by the Pentagon-echoes the recent private grumblings of some top military brass that the rapid deployment of troops to Iraq is in danger of crippling the fighting force that the nation has steadily rebuilt since the shaky post-Vietnam Army of a generation ago. Andrew Krepinevich, a retired Army officer and West Point graduate who wrote the 136-page report assessing the military's Iraq strategy, warns that the Army cannot maintain its current pace of operations in Iraq without leaving permanent damage. Plans to trim U.S. troops there this year...
...after flu symptoms appear?the World Health Organization questioned the review?s conclusions, and said it won?t change its recommendation that governments keep stocking up on the drug. For now, there?s little choice: while Tamiflu isn?t a magic bullet, says Dr. Jeremy Farrar, a doctor in Vietnam who has treated bird-flu victims, ?it remains the best drug we have...
...locked in a global contest with its chief rival, Citigroup, to tap the pocketbooks of the world's newly rich. From South Korea to India to Brazil, HSBC is expanding its branch network, launching new financial products and marketing its brand. In December HSBC acquired 10% of Vietnam's Techcombank; in November HSBC said it planned to launch the first independent investment bank in Saudi Arabia; and in late October it purchased 70% of an investment bank called Dar Es Salaam in, of all places, Iraq. Says Stephen Green, HSBC's global chief executive, who in November was named...