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During his junior year at Princeton University, Donovan Campbell decided to take the Marine Corps officer training course. Good for the resume, he thought - until he grew to embrace the Corps' ideals of service, honor and sacrifice. Campbell was soon a lieutenant in charge of a platoon thrust into Ramadi, Iraq in 2004, right as that city's insurgency blossomed. Unlike Fallujah, a city full of jihadists with very few civilians, Ramadi was "a much blurrier battle, a classic urban counterinsurgency, a never-ending series of engagements throughout the heart of a teeming city where our faceless enemies blended seamlessly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joker One: A Marine's Bloody Iraq Memoir | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

...more frozen cycles," he says. He points out the importance of not only transferring but also preserving each embryo on its own, which makes it possible to use frozen embryos one at a time rather than in bigger batches. "[If you transfer] three embryos in each cycle, you very soon don't have any good-quality embryos left," he says. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IVF Study: Two Embryos No Better Than One | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

...typical Harvard-Yale fashion, the Crimson soon saw its lead diminish. In a 10-minute stretch, Yale scored three-straight goals to tie up the game with 17:57 left of play...

Author: By Alex Sopko, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Pulls Away Late Against Rival Yale | 3/29/2009 | See Source »

...soon as the men deplaned, they began pushing and shoving one another before launching into a wild brawl that raged through Sydney's domestic terminal, bowling over a baby in a stroller and into the secure check-in area, where waiting associates joined in. In front of horrified passengers, one of the brawlers was allegedly knocked to the ground, and with what was described as a sickening "crunch" fatally bashed in the head with a steel post used to mark passenger lines. As the man lay dying in a pool of blood, the mob fled in taxis. One group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outbreak of Biker Violence Leaves Australia on Edge | 3/29/2009 | See Source »

...violence looks unlikely to abate anytime soon. Bikie gang expert and criminologist Arthur Veno, a professor at Monash University in Melbourne, says the step-up in violence is happening because of the rise of Notorious, a younger gang that has muscled in on established gangs' turf in Sydney. "This new gang doesn't have the traditional rules of engagement that the bikies share among themselves," he says. "The war has broadened from the issue of a simple battle over the issue of the drug pyramid. It has now spilled into the long-term affiliations between clubs and has allowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outbreak of Biker Violence Leaves Australia on Edge | 3/29/2009 | See Source »

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