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Waite's mission was not made easier by the explosion of renewed violence in Lebanon. Flying cover for a routine patrol in the Bekaa Valley, Israeli F-15s shot down two threatening Syrian MiG-23Ss over Syrian territory. In West Beirut, tanks and rockets were being used in the bitter fighting between the Druze militia of Walid Jumblatt's Progressive Socialist Party and its erstwhile ally, the Shi'ite Amal militia, headed by Nabih Berri. By Friday, police estimated that 44 people had been killed and 200 wounded...
...Given those statistics, Supple - whose chemotherapy winds up in March - is lucky to be alive. Given his age, he's even luckier. While there have been huge strides in treating young children - about 80% of under-15s diagnosed with cancer in Australia and New Zealand will beat the disease, more than double the rate in the 1970s - adolescents and young adults aren't doing nearly as well: depending on the type of cancer, their cure rates are lagging as much as 30 percentage points behind. The figures for all - the most common childhood cancer - illustrate the point. Some...
...second boat, skippered by junior Gabe Dorfman and crewed by a rotation of sophomore Jenny Wong and sophomore Clemmie Everett, finished sixth. The team’s high finish was impressive given the weekend’s conditions, which included a change from FJ boats to vanguard 15s and new skipper-crew combinations...
...there; she didn't even sleep on it. Sheets had to be ironed perfectly for twice-weekly inspections, so like her fellow cadets, Fullilove simply slept on the floor. Yet she loved every moment of being there. "All I ever wanted to be was a bird and fly F-15s," she says. "Both my parents are Air Force. The Air Force Academy was the only place I even applied to for college. I wanted to show my patriotism...
...elusive, Air Force officers said they expected more than 100 planes to be sent to the region in the days to come. Beyond the deployments detailed in take 1, B-1s from Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D. and Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, as well as F-15s from Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, have been ordered to the region. Among the more than 5,000 reservists the Air Force have called up are crews manning B-52s at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., and B-1s at Robins Air Force Base...