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...Senior military officials have dropped hints about a new, classified weapon for Iraq but won't provide details. Still, information about HPMs, first successfully tested in 1999, has trickled out. "High-power microwave technology is ready for the transition to active weapons in the U.S. military," Air Force Colonel Eileen Walling wrote in a rare, unclassified report on the program three years ago. "There are signs that microwave weapons will represent a revolutionary concept for warfare, principally because microwaves are designed to incapacitate equipment rather than humans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Ultra-Secret Weapon | 1/27/2003 | See Source »

...Calm down, O Ghost of Elvis Past, and think of the old days. Thanks to Colonel Tom Parker and the suits at RCA, you didn't have that much to say about your music when you were alive. Don't expect final-cut privileges now that you're "dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Happy Birthday, Elvis | 1/8/2003 | See Source »

...dependent on others to write "Elvis-style" material. The Beatles left him for dead; and his darling, deviant version of "Blowin' in the Wind" (from a Graceland basement tape) shows he didn't exactly get Bob Dylan. This should have been Elvis' prime; but his movie producers, and the Colonel, called the shots. He didn't rebel; he did it their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Happy Birthday, Elvis | 1/8/2003 | See Source »

...resolution investing power in the inspectors said they had to represent "the broadest possible geographic base"; accordingly, they come from 49 countries. Among the team members are a retired U.S. Army colonel who guided nuclear inspectors through Russia in the 1990s to enforce disarmament agreements, an Egyptian chemist who worked for her country's atomic-energy laboratory and a Virginia man who founded his own security-consulting company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Are Those Inspectors? | 12/16/2002 | See Source »

Last year he was profiled in the New York Post, where he discussed his most recent military reactivation and his last parachute drop, made at the age of 64. He retired from military service as a Green Beret with the rank of lieutenant colonel...

Author: By Jaquelyn M. Scharnick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Maverick Folic Acid Researcher Dies at 75 | 12/5/2002 | See Source »

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