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...unpopular, the situation in Kandahar has deteriorated. The Taliban own the night, slipping death threats under the doors of those who would cooperate with the government. In Iraq the military's counterinsurgency strategy turned around a similarly bleak urban situation - notably in Baghdad, where U.S. troops helped the Iraqis regain control of neighborhoods by setting up and staffing joint security stations. But the troops who should be securing Kandahar are fighting an elusive enemy in Helmand. (See pictures of the war in Afghanistan's Kunar Province...
Entering her freshman season, standout basketball recruit Jasmine Evans hoped to follow the advice of her coach and provide a defensive presence that would help the Harvard women’s basketball team regain its position atop the Ivy League...
...health- care reform stalls and sours, many of us are losing confidence. And if I were Obama, I’d be worried about this more than anything. Because the health-care battle is about more than health care: It’s about whether young Americans will regain faith in the American political system or wake up from the Obama dream and retreat toward complacency and disillusionment...
...Uganda sees the female condom as one way to regain the success the nation had in the fight against HIV/AIDS in the 1990s. After slashing its AIDS rate from more than 20% in the late '80s to about 6% in 2000, Uganda saw a leveling off of AIDS cases and then a slight rise. No one has been able to explain the reversal. Some say it's related to failed distribution programs for the male condom in the past. Other experts suspect that it's a result of foreign NGOs and governments pushing Uganda away from effective domestic programs that...
...government take a woman's baby from her because she doesn't speak English? That's the latest question to arise in the hothouse debate over illegal immigration, as an undocumented woman from impoverished rural Mexico - who speaks only an obscure indigenous language - fights in a Mississippi court to regain custody of her infant daughter...