Word: battlefield
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...battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.” So sayeth Napoleon Bonaparte, but the same could be said for the Ivy League...
...what Pennsylvania's state beekeeper Dennis vanEngelsdorp found when he examined victims of CCD: "[W]hat he saw looked like an infinitesimal World War I battlefield. Everywhere was shiny, pockmarked ruin. The bees' guts, which should have been white, were stippled brown with infection. Their sting glands had blackened - a melanization last reported fifty years ago in connection with rare fungal infections. VanEngelsdorp found deformed wing virus, black queen cell virus, and many more. The bees didn't have one disease. They had them...
...Iranian-born Mofaz, 60, is selling himself to Kadima voters as a longtime soldier ever-vigilant against Israel's enemies in the region. Mofaz distinguished himself through battlefield bravery as a corporal and then rose through the ranks to become army chief of staff and, later, Defense Minister. Officers who served with Mofaz praise his diligence, but say he lacks vision and flexibility...
...athlete, or a master psychopath, maybe both. A quote from former New York Times Iraq expert Christopher Hedges that opens the film says, "War is a drug." Movies often editorialize on this theme: the man who's a misfit back home but an efficient, imaginative killing machine on the battlefield. Bigelow and Boal aren't after that. They're saying that, in a hellish peace-keeping operation like the U.S. deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan (James' previous assignment), the Army needs guys like James...
...Still, he admits his situation is dire. "It's a tough fight. I don't enjoy being a leader of a country in a time of war." But rather than striking back on the battlefield, he says, the only way to convince Russia to leave is to "hit them where it hurts" in bank accounts in the West. As for the Russian army, he scoffs, "They are not capable of a new Cold War. They are badly dressed, badly equipped, and many of them are drunk. There are just a lot of them...