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Indeed, some soldiers at the 143rd Battalion's headquarters, a cluster of brick buildings 12 miles from Aberdeen's main post, confessed they were not shocked by the charges. They described a high school atmosphere on base where gossip about sex rustled among the troops. "There's lots of talk about relationships, but it's whispered, not broadcast widely," says Private Xanett Salgador-Hill, 18, a mechanic from Savannah, Georgia. "It's the same as in the civilian world, but people expect more from the military." Private Bashir Gray, 18, has heard the rumors too. "People were saying some...
...however, there may now be a way to get things unstuck. Investigators at the Picower Institute for Medical Research in New York are working on a drug that acts as an AGES solvent. Known as pimagedine, the medication dissolves the connections between the AGES protein and the proteins that cluster around it. In one study, 18 patients taking pimagedine showed reduced blood levels of lipoproteins, the substances that act as precursors of artery-clogging cholesterol. In another, rats taking pimagedine did not exhibit any signs of heart disease...
Each officer will also be assigned responsibility for patrolling a cluster of houses or buildings within a given unit...
...took the delays sportingly, realized she would be earning her pay in space this trip as soon as she crawled into Mir last March, joining the two men she came to know affectionately as her "two Yuris"--cosmonauts Yuri Onufrienko and Yuri Usachev. The Russian station is a cluster of six cramped, camper-size pods, with most of the living space devoted to labs. Personnel sleep in curtained, closet-like enclosures at the end of one pod and exercise with their bodies bungeed into place on treadmills; when it comes time for a shower, they must get by with space...
That is how it goes in theory, at least. The hantavirus outbreak is an example of what can happen when everything goes right: a concentrated cluster of cases to catch the attention of doctors; an excellent local public-health system; a world-class lab a few hours away by plane; and quick identification of the microbe, the carrier and the mode of transmission. But the reality, as any military commander knows, is that the best strategy is useless without the resources to implement...