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...basic training ("boot camp"), segregated barracks and tougher physical training. The report was immediately assailed not only by feminists but by military insiders. Coed training at all levels has been the rule in the Army for the last three years, in the Navy since 1992 and in the Air Force since 1977. Nearly 14% of the nation's 1.4 million soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are female...
...have to start the unit cohesion and the bonding at the beginning," says Army Major Mary Finch, a West Point graduate and helicopter pilot. Senator Olympia Snowe, the Maine Republican who serves on the Armed Services Committee, calls the report "a disturbing step backwards." Karen Johnson, a retired Air Force officer who is now a vice president of the National Organization for Women, said that "creating a two-tiered training system will focus on the symptom rather than the underlying problem--a military culture that values women less than men. If men and women do not train together from...
...INTO THIN AIR (Villard) In May 1996 Jon Krakauer reached the 29,028-ft. summit of Mount Everest. His assignment for Outside magazine would, it seemed, end in triumph. But the day did not. A storm arose that killed 11 other climbers. Krakauer's book dramatically reports this calamity and examines the proliferating, expensive tours that offer novices the top of the world. Some of them live to tell their tales...
...tradition started with a hero, Charles Lindbergh, who conquered the Atlantic by air to become the most inspiring newsmaker of 1927. In seven decades, TIME's Men and Women of the Year have included the despicable (Adolf Hitler in 1938), the majestic (Queen Elizabeth II in 1952), the visionary (Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963) and the revolutionary (Lech Walesa in 1981). There has been the man in uniform (G.I. Joe in 1950), the younger generation (1966) and an entire gender (American women, 1975). The computer beat out flesh and blood in 1982. And the earth itself became the biggest...
...Air Passenger Killed in Turbulence One person died and 102 were injured when a United Airlines 747 fell 1,000 feet in turbulence over the Pacific. Now investigators are asking why the crew failed to anticipate the danger...