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...against the Taliban in 2001. In the northern Iraqi autonomous zone of Kurdistan, U.S. troops are readying the various Kurdish militias for war. They are conducting weapons training and policing an alliance among them. And since September, at Taszar air base in Hungary, the U.S. has also been providing combat training to 5,000 Iraqi rebels, including Kurds and Shi'ites from the south. Another group trained at Taszar will become advisers to the special forces and are expected to help form any post-Saddam military administration...
Another antiviral drug, called pleconaril, had the rug pulled out from under it last March when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration declined to approve it, citing concerns that pleconaril might interfere with the effectiveness of oral contraceptives and other drugs. To combat that problem, Viropharma, the biotech company that developed pleconaril, decided to reformulate the pill, turning it into a nasal spray, thereby lowering its dose and the chance that it might interfere with other drugs. Viropharma is now looking for another pharmaceutical company to help defray the costs of testing the new formula...
...first in a series of screenings sponsored by the Harvard Vietnamese Association (HVA), the Vietnam war combat cameraman turned documentary filmmaker Tran Van Thuy spoke to an enthusiastic audience of two hundred that packed Fong Auditorium...
...makes it sound like people who want to make peace with Israel combat terrorism, but people on the other side would be terrorists,” she said. “That perpetuates the idea that Muslims are terrorists...
Trends in America defy traditional beliefs about women in the military. While women cannot be required to register for a draft, a growing number of women are volunteering for military service. In 2002, there were 212,000 women on active duty serving in nearly every type of unit, including combat units. Over 40,000 women fought in the Persian Gulf War of 1991, and one out of every five women in uniform was deployed in direct support of the troops in Iraq and Kuwait...