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Will it work? To get a sense of both the promise and the perils of the adviser program, just look at the base of the new Iraqi army's 303rd Battalion, in western Baghdad. Outside the gates of the compound is a repurposed Taco Bell sign that reads THE ALAMO. The 1,100 Iraqi soldiers live in a strip of two-story concrete barracks. Johnson and his men sleep in a separate part of the compound where they keep an independent operations room, but spend the rest of their time living and working side by side with the Iraqis, helping...
...broke smoothly and whirled through the first two laps in perfect position just behind the early leaders with Coe right on Cram's back. Coe stayed with his younger rival through the third lap, and for a moment, at the bell for the final lap, Coe seemed to be gaining. But then Cram, whose shock of curly blond hair, perfect legs and finely sculpted features give him the look of a Greek demigod, began to turn up the burners, rolling faster and faster with no apparent strain. As the field stretched out in the last lap, he was simply flying...
Streetcars stopped in silence. A bell rang mournfully seven times. It was 8:15 a.m. in Hiroshima last Tuesday, 40 years after an atomic bomb nicknamed Little Boy burst 1,850 ft. over the city with a searing, blinding flash, killing 118,000 people within days and dooming nearly as many to slower deaths in later years. In a speech to 55,000 onlookers at Hiroshima Memorial Peace Park, Mayor Takeshi Araki urged the superpowers to abolish nuclear weapons. The goal, said Araki, was "no more Hiroshimas." Afterward, 1,500 doves, symbols of peace, were released into cloudy skies...
...load that is long on engineering and math. Sleep, not surprisingly, is regarded as a luxury. To stay awake in class, cadets who begin dozing off in their seats are permitted to stand up by their desks. After lunch, entire classes are sometimes on their feet by the final bell...
Most business systems or private users, of course, cannot be so carefully protected. Researchers at AT&T's Bell Labs are prohibited from running programs that have been acquired over the phone until they have been tested for sabotage. Other companies use call-back boxes that phone would-be users at pre-authorized numbers only. The practice prevents intrusion by hackers who have learned the telephone numbers that give access to the system. They may call in, but unless they are reachable at a cleared phone number, they will not be able to log on. But all security measures, including...