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According to Coffin family members and U.S. government officials looking into the case, Coffin's vehicle ran off Route 8 at about 8 a.m. Iraqi time on July 1--perhaps to avoid an Iraqi vehicle barreling directly toward it. "We understood it might have been a kamikaze-type thing," Candy says. Once the vehicle was in a ditch, it was swarmed by an angry Iraqi crowd. A humvee traveling behind pulled over to try to help Chris and his comrade, 19, who were both badly hurt, but all four soldiers were quickly surrounded by the crowd and the humvee...
...York Times reporter Jayson Blair was caught in a string of plagiarisms and fabrications, ultimately leading to a staff revolt and the resignation of Times executive editor Howell Raines--it seems prescient. It also underscores Jurgensen's dual challenge. In the post-Blair era, any editor wants to avoid negative attention. On the other hand, she would like to raise the profile of the nation's largest paper, which has never called attention to itself in proportion to its size. For most Americans, USA Today is like the airport Starbucks: a staple of life on the road (only about...
There is no effective treatment, but the prevention strategies used to avoid regular mosquito bites work pretty well: wearing insect repellent with 35% DEET (10% for kids), especially at dawn and dusk, when the insects are most active, and draining those pools of standing water, where the bugs like to breed. --With reporting by A. Chris Gajilan/New York
...like using antibiotics to fight the common cold?it just makes the enemy more resistant. Surely, nonlethal weapons, such as PepperBall guns or rubber bullets, would not only save lives but also do less damage to the American image abroad. Since police are able to control crowds and avoid riots using nonlethal means, why can't peacekeeping soldiers use the same methods to break this cycle of violence? Penny Freeland S?o Paulo...
...long term, Beijing is likely to avoid both extremes of cracking down or genuinely leaving Hong Kong alone. The most probable course might be an appeal to nationalism by blaming pernicious foreign influences for the current turmoil. At a meeting on July 9, according to my source, five top leaders agreed that the "deep background" to the Hong Kong events was interference from the U.S. Such an analysis differs only in degree, not in essence, from that which claimed the 1989 Tiananmen Square rallies were orchestrated by "a tiny minority" of "counterrevolutionaries"?with foreign backing, of course. None...