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Frist, an HMS alum, returned to his alma mater yesterday to propose a “Manhattan Project for the 21st Century” that would combat bioterrorism and infectious diseases...
...town's big projects-to update the water system, jail the local methamphetamine dealers and make a clean sweep of the junk in people's yards-slowly stalled. Given fears for the town's soldiers, it was as if Bradford held its breath for the year they were in combat, hanging on every newscast, every e-mail and call home. "Nothing progressed," says Farrah Chambliss, 28, wife of police chief Josh Chambliss, also a staff sergeant in Iraq. "We ... just floated...
...Paul Bunn is an old hand at combat, an infantryman who served in Panama and the first Gulf War. This latest experience was the worst. His unit in Baghdad, part of the military's quick-reaction force, which deployed for four-day stretches against insurgents, was hit by 37 improvised explosive devices while in Iraq, 13 in one day in Sadr City. Bunn still has nightmares about a rocket attack on his unit in April 2004. He spent two hours, he says, picking up "pieces and pieces and pieces" of bodies of U.S. soldiers. He remains agitated about...
...spoke exclusively to Time. "It's not what they do, because they think you go in for a day or two days, and do your business and get out,'' says Adam, who does not want his surname used for security reasons. "It wasn't until after certain high-tempo combat engagements during (Operation) Anaconda that we kind of worked out that we can do better than this.'' Similar distinctions were noted amongst the lower ranks. "They were body-builder types, full of steroids, some of them,'' says one SAS Afghan veteran. "They could only manage a couple of days...
Almost four months after an election that held so much promise, the outlook for U.S. forces in Iraq is taking a turn for the worse. Some 14 U.S. troops have been killed in the last three days, bringing the U.S. combat casualty total for the month of May thus far to 54. (Almost 600 Iraqis have died in the same period.) As May shapes up as a contender for the deadliest month for U.S. forces in the past year, worse news comes from the sober assessment of one of the most respected - and U.S.-supportive - strategic thinktanks in Europe...