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...soldiers and the locals who depend on the rational analysis that anthropology brings," Wintersteen says. In his training class of about 50 people, there were only about 13 social scientists, five with Ph.D.s - many of the others came from a military background. Because of the AAA, "there are a lot of highly motivated, ethical, critical anthropologists who are being discouraged from helping the program." HTS project manager Fondacaro admits that finding recruits with regional expertise is "very rare," but he argues that HTS is creating a population of social scientists with firsthand experience in Iraq and Afghanistan where none existed...
...religious traditions in the U.S. According to a 2008 study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, 37% of married adults in the U.S. have a spouse from another religious tradition. Among Jewish Americans, that figure rises to almost half of all marriages. That's a lot of Chrismukkahs, a lot of travel for family holidays and a lot of gifts. (See the top 10 religion stories...
Because the Hurricanes won so many national championships, a lot of South Florida sportswriters still celebrate thugball as an oh-so-misunderstood facet of the Magic City's rambunctious charm. Fortunately, the university's current president, Donna Shalala, former President Clinton's health secretary, and the Hurricanes' coach, former UM player Randy Shannon, have set the program and the school in a new and more mature direction. By putting academic stature before gridiron grandeur, Shalala has moved Miami, once known as "Suntan U," into the top 50 of the U.S. News & World Report national university rankings. Shannon, meanwhile, has proved...
...Spain and No. 2 is Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck in Britain.) The animal skin rugs thrown over the back of the chairs and the bleached wood remind you that this is ground zero for the new Nordic cuisine, in which a traditional focus on pickling, shellfish, a lot of rye and root vegetables is combined with the full panoply of a modern professional kitchen's tricks. Here, a single raw razor clam comes encased in a magical tube of parsley gelee, and a gorgeous piece of pork belly gets the sous-vide treatment (vacuum sealed and cooked at extremely...
...expected to win that round as well. And if he can truly govern as a reasonable instead of rabid conservative, it could do a lot to relieve the polarization and distrust that linger 20 years after Pinochet. "Pinochet is dead and fortunately not really an issue in this election," says Holzmann. "But if Piñera becomes the President most Chileans hope he'll be, it will amplify that gray area between liberal and conservative that countries like ours need more...