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...latest semaphore flags from the Bush Administration suggest the President is warming to the idea of boosting - if perhaps only on a short-term basis - the number of U.S. combat troops in Iraq by somewhere between 15,000 and 30,000 troops...
...timetable set by the report dictates that all combat bridges “not necessary for force protection” could be removed by the first quarter of 2008. By proposing systematic disengagement without the restriction of an inflexible timetable, the report’s proposed policy is both practical, and we hope it will prove to be effective...
...Inconvenient Truth”: What environmentally conscious 19-year-old wouldn’t want to be Al Gore for a day? Add a “Give ‘em hell Al!” Marc Jacobs tote, and you’re ready to combat global warming, one carbon emitting clothing company at a time. 3. Miranda Priestly’s Dennis Basso black mink coat and Prada handbag, “The Devil Wears Prada”: Every girl needs at least one PETA-offending outfit. 4. Borat Sagdiyev’s Brigitewear thong swimsuit...
...battleship was finished as well. Leyte showed that even the bulkiest battleship was no match for an aerial assault—the Musahi, one of the two largest vessels ever to enter combat, was sunk by American planes...
...Wirth, who is also chair of the School of Public Health’s Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, said that the finding could help producers of malaria vaccines respond to adaptations by the parasite in much the same way as the influenza vaccine is updated to combat changes in that virus. “We’ll be able to monitor to see if vaccines are working and also to develop new vaccines,” Wirth said in a phone interview from Senegal, where she is running a workshop on her study’s results...