The Taliban Conundrum

THE CONUNDRUM OF EUTHANASIA

Understanding the Taliban and Insurgency in Afghanistan

Afghanistan is in danger of capsizing in a perfect storm of insurgency that mimics operations and tactics witnessed in Iraq. This article assesses this insurgency and the re-emergent Taliban. The common view of the Taliban as simply a radical Afghan Islamist movement is overly simple, for that organization has been able to build on tribal kinship networks and a charismatic mullah phenomenon to ...

Taliban rulers curtail women's freedom, health care.

the conundrum of euthanasia

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The prostate cancer conundrum.

In 2003, the American Cancer Society estimates that 220 900 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer and that 28 900 will die from this disease (1). Since the introduction of testing for prostate-specific antigen (PSA), the incidence of prostate cancer has increased, whereas the mortality from this disease has decreased. During the early 1990s, mortality from prostate cancer peaked in the Uni...