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...deployed to sniff out explosives. "Hunter-killer" teams from the task force roam Baghdad in armored vehicles equipped with optical and laser devices to fry any bombs that are found. "This is a pro team of terrorists we're facing in Iraq, and we're working every day to beat them," says Lieut. Colonel Ernest Benner, a former operations chief of the task force, whose budget this year totals $1.4 billion. "But there are no silver bullets...
...that read, "And herein do I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offense toward God and toward men." A bulletin board in the lobby posts a prayer list with such intentions as "safe and healthy weight loss"; the sound system plays hymns mixed to an aerobic beat. The gym is "about the individual and his or her relationship with God," says Pitz, working out on the adjustable hydraulic machine. "It's very exciting...
...which Rice acknowledged to TIME. "If you think about how to defeat an insurgency, you defeat it not just militarily but politically," she says. That has increased the burden on Rice to hammer out a political arrangement that can appeal to disaffected Sunnis and eventually allow the U.S. to beat a dignified retreat. "She's up to her ears" on Iraq, says a senior White House official. Rice was with Bush in Crawford, Texas, when he learned of the attack that killed 14 Marines last Wednesday. Throughout the week, she engaged in around-the-clock phone sessions with...
...drop out of school than those of their parents' generation in the 1970s. The birthrate for girls under 14 has been cut in half since 1953. But that record does not prevent every new generation of parents from fearing the worst. "We seem to have moved, without skipping a beat, from blaming our parents for the ills of society to blaming our children," observes Thomas Hine, author of The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager. "We want them to embody virtues we only rarely practice. We want them to eschew habits we've never managed to break...
Dustin B. Lushing, 17, says he wanted “to be able to show [his] intelligence without being made fun of and beat...