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...could wipe out the drug trade tomorrow by legalization and taxation, which would take away the enormous profits earned in illicit trade and reduce theft by addicts who steal to support their habit. The huge sums reserved for incarceration and policing could be spent on health care and education. William A. Ring San Diego...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...pissed when section rolls around and we are forced to (gasp!) pay attention. Now imagine if you were in a class where such glorious oblivion was essentially impossible, as it is for Jenny Y. Wang ’10, the only student in Erving Research Professor of Chemistry William Klemperer’s Freshman Seminar “Seeing by Spectroscopy.” For those of us who never got past the elementary acronym ROYGBIV, Professor Klemperer says, “I think the easiest way to explain it is that spectroscopy is the...detailed examination of the frequencies...

Author: By Charles R. Melvoin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Spectroposomething | 3/7/2007 | See Source »

Dingman said that the new director will have a level of responsibility on par with the three resident deans of freshmen, who are currently Lesley Nye Barth, Sue Brown, and William Cooper ’94. But the new director will not have similar one-on-one responsibilities with students...

Author: By Madeline W. Lissner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dean’s Office Creates ‘Fun’ Director | 3/6/2007 | See Source »

Everything seemed to have been going well last year. In May 2006, Admiral William J. Fallon, then combatant commander for U.S. forces in the Pacific (CINCPAC) - and now the chief overseeing the more fraught theater that includes both Iraq and Afghanistan - visited four cities during an official tour of China that was, at its core, an open invitation for Beijing to emerge from the secrecy that shrouds much of its military planning and spending. The incentive for China? To sit down, U.S. officials later said, with counterparts in the Pentagon and be treated not as an enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is China's Military a Threat? | 3/5/2007 | See Source »

...Saca, too, may be in hot water if it is determined that the three dead congressmen were themselves involved in drug trafficking. The murdered politicians, Eduardo D'Aubuisson, William Pichinte and Jose Ramon Gonzalez, belonged to El Salvador's ruling Nationalist Republican Alliance party, known as ARENA. All were members of the regional parliament, which has 132 members representing five of the seven Central American nations. Based in Guatemala City, the parliament, known by its Spanish acronym PARLACEN, has been mired in drug-trafficking scandals in recent years. In 2003 a Honduran member of the body was convicted of trafficking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Murder Spree in Central America | 3/5/2007 | See Source »

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