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You’ve got to admire Les Claypool. Still theoretically the brains behind Primus, Claypool, last seen playing Colonel to his Amazing Flying Frog Brigade, has formed yet another side project. It is a little as though someone is playing fantasy football with musicians: How else would you get Stewart Copeland, the drummer from the Police, head-Phish Trey Anastasio and jack-of-all-bands Les Claypool on the same album...
...clock crafting the words and pictures. For the Afghans, the words to be spoken have to be chosen carefully and the ones printed on paper have to be few. "Our big problem in Afghanistan is that a vast majority of the people are illiterate," says a U.S. Army colonel. The leaflets therefore have to be mostly pictures so they are understood...
...metal, a windowless first-floor conference room has been transformed into a fully operational command center. Color-coded floor plans and organizational charts of key personnel adorn the walls, and teams of sturdy men and women wearing fatigues swing in and out, ready to be deployed. Air Force Lieut. Colonel Steven Vieira oversees the operation, dispatching troops swiftly but carefully. His goal is "100% contact and saturation." The enemy is not human but ghostly, flickering here and there on the faces of the nearly 20,000 Pentagon employees who once thought their building was untouchable and now walk...
...Until now many units have been able to focus on pulling their offices together and getting people back to work. But as their tasks return to normal--last week workers stopped searching for human remains and prepared for the reconstruction--there are more opportunities to reflect. Says Lieut. Colonel Hank Cashen, a social worker normally stationed at Andrews Air Force Base: "More and more reactions and feelings are beginning to come to the surface." And with the search for remains now over, the procession of funerals will accelerate. This week, on the one-month anniversary of the attack, there will...
...days following the Sept. 11 attack, HUPD was in almost daily contact with the FBI, Secret Service, the Bureau of Diplomatic Security and other federal law enforcement agencies. Riley, a former lieutenant colonel of the Massachusetts State Police, is well connected in the local law enforcement community and has been receiving advice on Harvard’s threat profile and vulnerability...