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Police detective Brian Braswell of Petersburg, Va., thinks he's "three-quarters" prepared for the next Columbine. Last month, the local high school was the stage for a hostage drill complete with blaring fire alarms, 60 kids from Junior ROTC playing the wounded and scared, and an officer portraying a revenge-seeking killer, firing blanks from a shotgun. Braswell's team of officers had to push through waves of fleeing, panicked students and step over wounded children tugging at their pant legs crying "Help me!" Says Braswell: "From Columbine, we've learned that you have no choice...
...with an unexpected hint of vulnerability-you might act like Brando around the guys, but you'll also never miss "Felicity" on Wednesday nights. You might idolize James Gandolfini from "The Sopranos" but your closet is filled with baby-blue cashmere turtlenecks. Your handy tool might be a DeWalt drill but all the girls know you can make a mean plate of vegetable lasagna. If you need a simple formula, try straight-boy rage plus feminine passion. So to summarize: Stallone out, Jude Law in. Macho out, unobtrusive self-confidence in. Or maybe it's better put this way-players...
...comes zero hour. The brave volunteers will be sealed in the war room--no civilians allowed, only a telecom link to their commanders--to carry out a perilous mission and stare into the void. They've rehearsed the horrifying scenario over and over. But this will be no drill. If all goes wrong...the survivors will envy the dead...
Kennedy's charge is the latest in a string of sexual-harassment episodes that have plagued the Army. In 1996 male drill sergeants at the Army's training base at Aberdeen, Md., were charged and later convicted of sexually assaulting female recruits. A year later the Army's top enlisted man, Sergeant Major Gene McKinney, was charged with--but later acquitted of--sexual assault. In the past year the service has punished two generals for adultery...
...National Science Foundation will explore that critical environment--if Congress approves the $17.4 million project--as early as next year. As part of project EarthScope, quake researchers hope to create a geological "microscope" by drilling a hole beside the San Andreas at one of its most active regions, turning their drill 45[degrees] at 1 1/2 miles deep, and then boring right through the fault. This would give scientists their first direct access to an earthquake-initiation site, where they could set up monitors to observe changes in temperature, fluid pressure, gas composition and all the other vital signs...