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est.In the US military, several planners and commanders have been taking lessons in tactics from the IDF. In July, for example, Brig. Gen. Michael Vane, a deputy chief of staff at the US Army Training and Doctrine Command, wrote in a letter to Army Magazine that he had recently traveled to Israel to glean lessons learned from their counterterrorist operations in urban areas. But so far, US commanders on the ground in Iraq seem not to have learned of Ya'alon's important insight that decisions that seem sound at the tactical level can add up to a setback at the broader level of national strategy.One US colonel overseeing movement controls around a village north of Baghdad explained to The New York Times how he thinks the new tough policy will work: With a heavy dose of fear and violence, and a lot of money for projects, I think we can convince these people that we are here to help them.I don't underestimate the challenge the US commanders face in Iraq. A recent poll organized by a British company found that only 21
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 ions. The crowd roared with approval when one contestant proclaimed, I believe in a destiny ?C I believe one day Tibet will be free!Besides the title and a prize of about $2,200, Miss Tibet will go on to represent Tibet in international pageants or at least she will try. At a competition in Harare, Zimbabwe, last year the Chinese Embassy pressured the event's organizers to give Miss Tibet a choice of wearing a sash reading 'Miss TibetChina' or opting out, according to Wangyal. She withdrew. The same happened in Malaysia, for Miss Tourism World.A surprise judge graced the final event on Sunday: Miss Washington State 2006, Kristen Eddings, happened to be here on a twoweek mission with the organization Bridges to Understanding (.bridgesweb.org), working with Tibetan schoolchildren. This is a wonderful event, said Miss Eddings. This is a great opportunity to empower young women in a culture that is so unique.Sunday night's crowd swelled to more than 2,000. Families with little children, Tibetan monks, and teenagers s
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 o continually refine its calculations of asteroid and comet orbits. It took three observations to establish the orbit of ShoemakerLevy 9, which buried itself in Jupiter in 1994 it took 200 observations to foresee the collision.In the process of observing the asteroids, Di Cicco discovered eight in the course of one year. These, he acknowledges, whetted his appetite, and he now has 40 discoveries to his credit. For Di Cicco, the chase, capture, and confirmation of discoveries take place in the relative comfort of an elaborate homebuilt backyard observatory, which boasts an office, darkroom, and observing platform for his computeroperated telescope.For others, the hunt is truly an outdoor experience. At 5 degrees, it gets hard, says computer specialist Michael Rudenko, referring to the long winter nights spent observing from his backyard in Amherst, Mass. In New England, you have to be ready when the sky is. If the sky was clear and the moon wasn't up, I was out.Mr. Rudenko, a research associate in the astronomy de
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