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...practiced these battle drills on paper and during field training exercises. The guns they used were real, but loaded with blanks. Sarvis can’t know what it would be like to perform these maneuvers in a combat situation, or how she would feel if she had to aim her gun at an enemy soldier and fire. Considering the alternatives is one way she understands how she could decide to pull the trigger. “Are you putting your soldier’s lives in danger by not doing this?” she says...
...since” and then gives a date and time, they are still online, and the two of you can chat away to your heart’s content. Type in “talk” and their username to chat with that special someone over the Internet, AIM-style. Or if you haven’t really crossed over to the realms of “talking,” try your shot at the command “write” followed by their username to send a message instead. The chances you’ll snag...
These poets “aim to establish in the reader’s imagination a more admirable ethics of relation, one more desirable than can be found at present on the earth,” Vendler writes in her concluding remarks. “Intimacy with the invisible is an intimacy with hope...
...research found that walking just eight extra flights of stairs a day decreased death rates by 33 percent. In the book, Simon sets up a points system, similar to the Weight Watchers method, which assigns different point values for everyday activities. According to this system, everyone should aim for 150 points a day for maximum health—which can be achieved by half an hour of heavy cleaning or cooking for 75 minutes. The book also notes that 15 minutes of sex is equivalent to 25 points. Those who are looking to lose weight should engage in physical activity...
...world's largest listed child-care provider. Not everyone welcomes the boom. Gordon Cleveland, a child-care economist at the University of Toronto, says Canadian observers are dismayed by Australia's "dependence on the corporate sector - it really frightens us." He argues that child-care providers whose chief aim is satisfying shareholders should not be receiving government help: "When you have subsidies available to large corporations, they will come in and subsidy farm." Critics of private care argue that it puts shareholders' interests before children's - and parents'. Community-based centers, by contrast, encourage parental involvement in everything from choosing...