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...where thinking," says Philip Coyle, a senior adviser at the Center for Defense Information (CDI) and a former Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Clinton Administration. "It's like you've hired a contractor to build a kitchen, and they've forgotten to build a stove that doesn't catch on fire." Still, the SBX has, in fact, spent about a month in Alaskan waters to test its ruggedness in rough weather, from which it emerged unscathed...
...cannot respond to. "Every time we leave here they know, and they will attack this place," he says. "We've asked for help and we had the Australian soldiers come here, but they went around and then they left. They patrol in helicopters, but you can't catch anyone from a helicopter. You have to get out." Down the road from the barbed-wire-fenced police compound, the town's main thoroughfares are blackened with the remains of burnt tires and littered with broken glass and rocks the size of tennis balls. In the jail at the back...
...While quarantine has improved, prevention has not. How did the cows catch the virus in the first place? A government investigation is focusing on two biological research labs at the Pirbright complex, 3 miles (4.8 km) from where this outbreak first appeared. The same strain of FMD found in Surrey's infected cattle is used by the state-run Institute for Animal Health and by the private firm Merial for research and vaccine making...
...finally over between us and amour? After decades as one of cinema's favorite subjects and centuries as the engine of novels and songs, romance faces a cold shoulder as a subject worthy of our attention. The recent movie calendar is pockmarked with the craters of little romantic bombs (Catch and Release, In the Land of Women...
...deficit of as many as 1 million RNs by 2020. Yet American nursing programs turned away nearly 150,000 qualified applicants for all degree levels last year--including 38,415 from bachelor's programs--according to the National League for Nursing (NLN). The profession is trapped in a catch-22: hospitals, desperate for staff, poach nurses from one another with bonuses and perks. Nursing colleges can't fill the gap with new graduates because the schools can't compete in this overheated marketplace for the experienced nurses they need as teachers. "Clinical salaries are so high that nurses...