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...Death Squads of Sadr City Re "Baghdad's Ground Zero" [Jan. 29]: Despite its best efforts to bring peace to Iraq, the U.S. has failed. Innocent Iraqis and U.S. troops are being killed in a useless war. It is high time that the world community ask the U.S. to withdraw. America cannot bring peace to the country, so it should immediately stop interfering in Iraq's matters. Shailesh Kumar Bangalore, India...
...This is not to say that mainlanders are as profligate as, for example, middle-class Americans, whose savings rate is zero. The survey shows that they are value-conscious. Although they are exposed to new trends in high-fashion consumption through the media, many middle-class Chinese still regard "luxury" as a synonym for "unnecessary waste." They tend to buy luxury items such as watches and jewelry sparingly and only when shopping outside the mainland...
...Death Squads of Sadr City Re "Baghdad's Ground Zero" [Jan. 29]: Despite its best efforts to bring peace to Iraq, the U.S. has failed. Innocent Iraqis and U.S. troops are being killed in a useless war. It is high time that the world community ask the U.S. to withdraw from Iraq. America cannot bring peace to the country, so it should immediately stop interfering in Iraq's matters. Shailesh Kumar Bangalore, India...
...group of Swedish women between the ages of 40 and 74 for over a decade. The findings revealed that the women who drank five or more cups of coffee per week had a 32 percent reduced relative risk of getting a heart attack compared with the women who drank zero to four cups per week, Rosner said. Rosner added that there was no significant inverse association between coffee drinking and heart attacks, however. Among coffee drinkers in the United States, the average consumption is 3.1 cups of coffee per day, according to statistics published by the National Institute of Health...
...court, Harvard could not make it a one-possession game. The closest it came was four, after Housman’s layup with seven seconds left made it 70-66. But the Bears just inbounded the ball to Huffman, who held it as the clock wound down to zero, sending the Crimson to its third straight setback. —Staff writer Ted Kirby can be reached at tjkirby@fas.harvard.edu...