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The soldiers of Charlie Rock have learned to treat every Iraqi they come across as a potential enemy. The unit's commander, Captain Jorge Melendez, 31, thinks the guerrilla attacks will continue sporadically for "two or three months." Mitchell had hoped to be back in the U.S. by mid-April...
When Saddam showed up on state television early last week, the supposed proof of his survival was trumpeted as a victory for the regime. "The enemy wanted to make the war short," he said. "But we hope, God willing, to make it long and heavy." The Iraqi dictator showed signs...
What did Kennedy expect? Khrushchev understood that style of statecraft. He had learned from the monster himself, sitting at Joseph Stalin's right hand--or in his savage vicinity--for decades as cheerleader, yes-man and ideological dogsbody: a "nice guy," as his Kremlin cronies called him, who cheerfully survived...
The language of epidemiology, the study and prevention of the spread of infectious diseases, is steeped in the metaphor of blockade. Doctors and scientists develop "barrier" nursing techniques and try to erect "ring fences" within society to corral a dangerous microbe, preventing it from jumping between people and countries. But...
Millions more around the world are feeling trapped by this mysterious illness. More than 80 victims in nearly two dozen nations had died of SARS by the weekend, leading the World Health Organization (WHO) to issue an unprecedented warning against travel to the hardest-hit regions of Guangdong province and...