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...still unclear whether the four Blackwater employees found themselves in Fallujah inadvertently or were on a mission gone awry. Even by Pentagon standards, military officials were fuzzy about the exact nature of the Blackwater mission; several officers privately disputed the idea that the team was escorting a food convoy. Another officer would say only the detail was escorting a shipment of "goods." Several sources familiar with Blackwater operations told TIME that the company has in some cases abbreviated training even for crucial missions in war zones. A former private military operator with knowledge of Blackwater's operational tactics says...
...Amare Stoudamire. One could argue that the reason for this trend is that high school players need three or four years to develop an NBA body type and skill level. And the best place to cultivate these skills is in the environment that has been custom-fitted for this exact thing—college...
...movies that are amazing and mind-blowing… [when you have a movie] with no special effects? Well, you compete with real guys, real situations, real people, heart and soul, and when it comes down to it, the fight of someone who’s gotta try to exact revenge...
...that even University administrators know about it. According to Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd, surveys of outgoing seniors consistently complain about social life. “We know we have a problem,” she says. “It’s just the exact way to solve it that we haven’t figured...
Pinker also said that most genes have multiple effects, which makes it very difficult for humans to predict exact effects of tampering with a baby’s genes...