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...duty soldiers go into the Guard for the extra money and camaraderie. Some of the shortage is due to the Army's "stop-loss" orders, which keep soldiers on active duty past their agreed-on commitments and thus make them unable to join the Guard. But there is another factor in the case of young people right out of high school: parents often steer their kids away from the military. "Mom and Dad understand they're going to go right into basic training," Jones says, "and then be eligible to deploy right away." Even if parents don't object...
...executive committee voted against renewing his contract. The issue was nepotism, which came to a head when Mfume allegedly appointed his son's girlfriend as director of corporate and foundation development in June 2003. The incident followed other actions benefitting friends of Mfume's and was the deciding factor, says Meyers, a longtime critic of the organization. Mfume declined to speak about the allegations...
...levels of c-reactive protein, or CRP--who knows? My doctor didn't test for it, and it didn't occur to me to ask. But two reports in last week's New England Journal of Medicine suggest that CRP may be just as important a risk factor for coronary-artery disease and heart attacks as LDL--and maybe more so. Does that mean I should have had the test? Not on the basis of what was known then. But now things are different...
MINNEAPOLIS—In his first pair of starts for the Harvard men’s hockey team, sophomore goaltender Justin Tobe let only three pucks slip past his pads. Factor in one more game, a contest against Merrimack in the consolation round of the Dodge Holiday Classic Dec. 23, and Tobe’s goals-against average has more than doubled...
...though, says Charles Thornton of Thornton-Tomasetti Engineers, which worked on a new tower in Taipei, among many others. "Two new developments allow us to produce any shape anyone wants to do," he says. "One is the ability to 'build' a building on the computer with programs that even factor in the dimension of time. We can see how components react to stress over the years, so that building doesn't go out of plumb." The second is that with computers, engineers and architects can also produce accurate three-dimensional designs, then a 3-D model, which is easier...