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...weeks ago, I was huddled in a hotel conference room with a dozen other neurosurgeons as we braced ourselves for the most important test of our lives. We were in Houston. It was hot and muggy. We were anxious, and all of us were sweating before the test even started. After finishing college, four years of medical school, seven years of training and five years of practice, I was taking a test that would transform me from "board eligible" to "board certified." But only if I passed...
PETER RODMAN, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, warning North Korea of the consequences of test-firing its Taepodong-2 long-range missile. The U.S. conceded that the missile-defense system it has under development has "limited operational capability" to protect against such a missile attack...
Soldiers are trained to kill and doctors to heal. At least that's how we usually understand those two professions. But wars can often distort reality, and the war on terrorism has turned into a test case. An inspiring example is that of Colonel Kelly Faucette, M.D. He recently wrote about caring for a new patient at the intensive-care unit of the 47th Combat Support Hospital in Mosul, Iraq. The patient was a terrorist insurgent, a man who planted hidden roadside bombs to murder civilians and Faucette's fellow soldiers. Faucette wrote in his local paper: "Something inside...
...Tokyo, North Korea has apparently fueled numerous booster rockets capable of launching a Taepodong-2 missile in the country's northeast. The Taepodong-2 is believed to possess a range capable of hitting Alaska. U.S. and Japanese government spokesmen have both warned North Korea not to conduct a test. White House spokesman Tony Snow told CNN on Sunday that if North Korea goes ahead with a test, "then we will have to respond properly and appropriately at the time," though he declined to elaborate. Meanwhile, John Bolton, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., said that members of the U.N. Security...
...Japan would find a test particularly provocative. In 1998, North Korea tested a shorter-range Taepodong-1 missile, part of which fell in Japanese waters. That test shocked Japan, and was a powerful impetus for the government to increase its intelligence efforts, missile defenses and military cooperation with the United States. More recently, Japan has been frustrated by North Korea's refusal to provide information about perhaps dozens of Japanese citizens the hermit kingdom abducted throughout the 1970s and 1980s. In Japan, the emotional issue of abducted citizens has become almost as large an issue as North Korea's nuclear...