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Science Careers Blog reports on the third social scientist killed in the U.S. Army's controversial Human Terrain Program, who was attacked in November while speaking to villagers in Afghanistan:

Wired's Danger Room blog says [Paula] Loyd was the third social scientist in the Human Terrain program killed in the line of duty, and the second one killed in Afghanistan. Michael Bhatia, a political scientist in the program, was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan in May 2008. About 2 months later, Nicole Suveges, an economist working for an Army contractor, died when a bomb destroyed a community building in Sadr City, Baghdad.

—Eli Kintisch