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...nuclear weapons - and the countries it might use them against. The proposal was a radical departure from current nuclear military thinking that nuclear weapons are best used as a threat to keep others from attacking you. The U.S. nuclear arsenal had been developed principally as a last-ditch deterrent against a Soviet invasion of Europe, and the U.S. had promoted non-proliferation by pledging not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states. Now the Pentagon was saying the U.S. may encounter circumstances in which nuclear weapons would used against not only traditional nuclear powers such as China and Russia...
...cabin. Sabur took shrapnel in his leg. The convoy returned fire and called in air support. Three helicopters thundered up the canyon, blasting away at enemy positions. A few days later, another Afghan from the convoy showed a TIME reporter the truck, lying on its side in a ditch. "When we'd finished," he said, "all the Arabs were dead." So were three Afghans and one American. Army Chief Warrant Officer Stanley Harriman, 34, based in Fort Bragg, N.C., who had been in the cabin of Sabur's truck, was flown to Bagram, where he received last rites...
...That column had been moving south at around 2am in the first days of Operation Anaconda, when a brightly colored truck carrying Afghan soldiers was hit by al Qaeda's heavy weapons. It now lies on its side in a ditch, not far from the mud-brick structure to the east where the trap had been laid. Calling in close air support, the coalition troops had pummeled the building and pushed the enemy back. But the al Qaeda fighters regrouped at a high walled compound further down the road and off to the west. Again they unleashed heavy weapons fire...
...server business, the consultancy business, and printing and imaging). Hewlett's vision is more classic and conservative: avoid spreading your resources too widely, and focus on what you do best--and what you're known for. In HP's case, that's printing and imaging. Hewlett would have HP ditch most of its low-margin PC business. Until recently, Wall Street seemed to be in lockstep with Hewlett. Shares plunged 19% when the proposed merger was announced, then soared 17% late last year when Hewlett came out in opposition...
...careers. For the rest of the school year, every night there will be an event at a bar for seniors to gather, reminisce about meals in Annenberg, and wax nostalgic about all of the good-ol’ college days. Even more so, the events serve as a last-ditch attempt to get the proverbial “true college experience,” to go out with a bang, remembering college as an exuberant, debauchery-filled romp that somehow leads to maturity...