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Eisenhower understood that however gripping the battle histories, nothing captures the heartrending pity of war the way good poetry can, particularly that written in trenches and foxholes amid the horrors of combat. It is one thing to read in a textbook that more than 116,000 U.S. soldiers died in World War I; it's quite another to be struck by the question British poet Wilfred Owen raised in his Anthem for Doomed Young: "What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?/Only the monstrous anger of the guns./Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle/Can patter out their hasty...
...memorializes its dead, focusing on the new monument to the Oklahoma City bombing victims. "Over the years memorials have changed from generals on horseback to public places designed to affect feeling," says Rosenblatt. Carroll provides us with the final letters written by American soldiers who were later killed in combat. He began collecting such memorabilia after his parents' Washington home burned down, and now heads the nonprofit all-volunteer Legacy Project, which collects and preserves war letters. "These were ordinary people," he says, "in the front row of history...
Tomorrow's soldiers will also be outfitted with the Army's new Buck Rogers-like supergun. The lower of its two barrels sprays more standard bullets, but the key to the new rifle--given the catchy Army name of "objective individual combat weapon"--is the 20-mm air-burst round fired by its top barrel. A built-in laser range finder tells the round where in flight to explode, giving it the ability to spray lethal shrapnel in all directions, like a hand grenade, as much as half a mile from the shooter. That translates into a gun that...
...this weekend at a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncologists, the long-reviled pharmaceutical could be headed back into the medical spotlight. Researchers testing thalidomide's efficacy as a cancer-fighting agent have reaffirmed the drug's potency, urging its continued use in conjunction with chemotherapy to combat a wide range of cancers. While it's not clear exactly how thalidomide works against cancer, scientists theorize the drug may boost immune system functioning or attack cancerous cells directly...
...pale in comparison to the public's vivisection of thalidomide's risks. "People harbor deep-seated fears about thalidomide," says TIME medical contributor Dr. Ian Smith. "Given its history, many patients have understandable concerns over short- and long-term side effects of the drug." Doctors who use thalidomide to combat cancer, AIDS or leprosy can help alleviate some of this anxiety by following a strict protocol, says Dr. Smith. "Only patients who are not pregnant and who do not plan to become pregnant should be prescribed thalidomide," he says. Physicians also tend to reserve the drug for patients...