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...stage, there were 100 explosions a week. "You expected to get hit ... possibly several times," says Cannon. The roads were closed; some food was rationed. But with aggressive combat operations, sniper assaults and the building of precarious outposts, the 2-69 has regained control of the city's main artery, "Route Michigan," the troops' lifeline. Now they are struggling to keep it open. "Anyone who thinks [Iraq] is going to be won a year from now is mistaken," says brigade commander Colonel John Gronski...
...even if the main body of the slick disperses into the sea, the danger may not be over. Experts such as Chan King-ming, an associate professor of biochemistry at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, say the chemicals may seep into the banks of the Songhua and even into the area's groundwater, which could contaminate wells. And the river has started to freeze: the chemicals could be trapped in the ice until spring. "They'll need a long-term monitoring program, from this November until next summer," says Chan...
Asia could be heading for trouble again. And it's for an all too familiar reason: currency gyrations. Lacking in solid support from internal demand?especially private consumption?Asia has long been overly dependent on exports as its main driver of economic growth. As such, it is highly sensitive to swings in currency markets, which ultimately define the terms on which Asia exchanges its goods with the rest of the world...
...donations by his subordinates?unethical due to the possibility of coercion?were done without his knowledge, and that the donors begged him to deny a May 2004 report on their actions in the journal Nature. But the cover-up began to come undone on Nov. 12, when Hwang's main international collaborator abruptly ended their partnership, citing ethical concerns. On Nov. 21, Hwang's associate Roh Sung Il admitted that he had paid about 20 women $1,500 each for their eggs, a practice since declared illegal. "I had to keep it secret," Roh told Time, adding that Hwang...
...government has so far resisted mass killing of birds even though the virus has been detected in at least 23 of the country's 32 provinces. Compensation to farmers remains the main issue, with the government opting for vaccination as a less expensive way of controlling the spread of the virus in birds. "The government has allocated 134 billion rupiah [about $15 million] for vaccines, surveillance and prevention, but only a small amount for compensation, as mass culling is not the official policy," explains Mulyanto, an expert from the Agriculture Ministry's surveillance department...