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EDITOR'S NOTE: Last fall, TIME Daily writer Frank Pellegrini, at a ripe 27 years, took a leave of absence to join the Army Reserve - and headed off to boot camp. Given the difficulty the armed forces are experiencing in recruiting young people these days, we thought his experiences and impressions were worth sharing. Here is his final report...
...Working as a Let's Go r-dub can be a dream come true, providing a free ticket to a far away land for a seven week trip with a daily stipend to boot. And a summer writing gig for Let's Go can be an attractive bullet on any Harvard resume. Let's Go requires its writers to front the money for their tickets, however, since r-dubs have been known to bail. "Every year there are people who don't follow through on their eight weeks of research," Stone says...
...having trouble keeping pace with a growing slate of 911 calls. In many communities, emergency transportation has been taken over by for-profit ambulance companies that were supposed to increase efficiency and save taxpayer money. But in some cases they've been lethally inefficient--and none too profitable to boot...
...media. She doesn't just bet millions on the still notional idea of "convergence"--the trendy belief that television and online technologies will, somehow, on some machine, combine to form a superinformative, superprofitable supermedium. She does all of the above, taking on well-established women's media brands to boot...
EDITOR'S NOTE: TIME Daily writer Frank Pellegrini, at a ripe 27 years, has taken a leave of absence to join the Army Reserve. He is undergoing basic training ? boot camp ? and then will spend time in an Army journalism school. Given the difficulty the armed forces are experiencing in recruiting young people these days, we think his experiences and impressions are worth sharing. Here is the fourteenth missive; others will be posted as they arrive...