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...possible no such strategy exists. But last week there was a glimmer of a shred of a possibility: Operation Forward Together, the Iraqi-led effort to secure Baghdad-finally!-using classic counterinsurgency methods. "What they're trying to do is take back the city, sector by sector," says Andrew Krepinevich, director of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and a leading expert on counterinsurgency (coin is the inevitable military acronym). You might well ask, What is coin? Let me oversimplify: coin is the military equivalent of the police strategies that mayors like New York City's Rudy Giuliani used...
Like Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, Morgan believed in free enterprise but had seen enough of unbridled competition. For much of his career, he had assembled financing for the railways whose stupendous growth had revolutionized the U.S. after the Civil War. Boom and bust, duplicated routes, desperate price cutting and collapsed enterprises--the bumpy realities of the railroad business left Morgan with a horror of economic disorder. Profits required stability. Stability required concentration. Concentration meant trusts...
...several collections of poetry, he has also been an outspoken critic of Nigerian despots since the 1960s and mediated between indigenous people and oil companies in the Niger Delta. His latest work, a memoir, is titled You Must Set Forth at Dawn. Last week, he met Time's Andrew Purvis and Regine Wosnitza in Berlin. Why did you decide to write a new memoir and what have you learned from it? That is a good question. Certainly I did not want to write this memoir in the way it turned out. But that is the problem with writers. I learned...
...From nearer have come Peruvians in red ponchos, arriving in buses bannered ARRIBA PERU! (Up Peru!). Shaggy Scots, in kilts and tartan scarves, some of whom hitchhiked from New York City, wandered about ... waving bottles of local beer and giant flags bearing their national emblem, the cross of St. Andrew ... El Mundial, (The Global), as this eleventh international competition is nicknamed in Spanish, really is a world cup: the organizers claim that more than a billion of the earth's 4 billion people will watch some part of the month-long soccer tournament [on television...
...case of genes, of course, the alphabet contains just four letters, or bases: A, T, C and G (for adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine). "A gene has millions of bases," says Dr. Andrew Greenberg, director of the Obesity and Metabolism Laboratory at Tufts University. "We're trying to find what's called a single-nucleotide polymorphism, which is a single change in the DNA, a single base." Sometimes a single-nucleotide polymorphism (or SNP, pronounced snip) leads to the production of a slightly different version of a protein or enzyme. Sometimes that kind of change causes a shift...