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...Teams come in two flavors: longer-lasting country teams that run ongoing programs in nearly 70 nations, and 20 emergency-response teams that can rapidly deploy to a crisis for six to eight weeks. Disaster teams are staffed with specialists in logistics, information management, government relations and other disciplines vital to any relief effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organizing Disaster | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...Second, the potential for nuclear proliferation is one of the great dangers of the age, which is why it is so vital that there should be continued pressure on Pyongyang to verifiably dismantle its nuclear facilities. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew from Lee's inaugural to Beijing to reiterate that point to the Chinese authorities. No harm in that, but the real lesson of the past few years is that the Chinese get it. Alarmed by the potentially destabilizing impact of nuclear weapons on the peninsula, Beijing, Pyongyang's old ally, has been deeply engaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presidential Pragmatism | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

...Rollins’ displays over the course of the season have been vital to the Crimson’s challenge for the Ivy League crown. In the past few games she has been utterly dominant down...

Author: By Jay M. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rollins' High Scoring Keeps Crimson On Top | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

...Lookin’ At The Game,” which features an airy, monotone, female-voiced chorus and an exceptional record-scratching-based beat. With tracks like these, there is no denying that “Harlem’s American Gangster” is an entertaining if not vital listen. But as a statement on Harlem street life, it falls short. Perhaps Jim Jones doesn’t have the rap skills necessary to effectively take the standard “gangster experience” (if such a thing even exists) and present it in a way that...

Author: By Jessica O. Matthews, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jim Jones | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...Kotb soon discovered a similar level of ignorance when discussing such matters among her peers, and found it odd that so little was known about such a vital subject - despite the fact that sexuality is extensively discussed in the Koran. She later completed a Ph.D. by correspondence on the topic "Sexuality in Islam," explaining that sexual gratification within marriage is an important component of Islam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Islamic Answer to Dr. Ruth | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

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