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...must not only take the critical heat but get out of the kitchen. "We are soldiers first," he says. So between meals, it's off for an 8-km march with full pack, or training sessions in navigation and weapons handling: "It's quite demanding, making sure everyone gets fed as well as doing our soldierly...
...exercises, troops are served from trucked-in field kitchens, or carry "high-quality meals" in self-heating combat ration packs. "There's no chance of a soldier going hungry in the field," says Benstead, who'd clearly regard that as a personal defeat. "A happy soldier is a well-fed soldier," he says. "I always push into my chefs that we are the morale of the unit." More morale, at times, than some can handle: "Often after an exercise people say, 'What have you done to me? I should lose weight in the field...
...have O.K. yields. But with a CD, you lock up your money at a fixed rate of return for a period of months. Money funds have similar rates of return without locking up your cash, and with a money fund, you are certain to get higher rates if the Fed persists in boosting its benchmark federal funds rate...
...next few months and, he concedes, "We're not in love with the stock market." Yet he's holding minimal cash and boosting his exposure to stocks. Why? He's thinking long term, and after a slide, stocks have become more attractive. When it's clear the Fed is finally done boosting rates (which it may be even now), the market could rally...
...early start sharpening his message for the general election. Last June, 16 months before voting day, he showed up in his first campaign ad, talking about the importance of supporting the troops in Iraq. Ford--who campaigns in a biodiesel-fueled Ford F-250 pickup--has run ads asking, "Fed up when you fill up?" He was one of the first candidates in the country to run TV spots criticizing the Bush Administration's approval of a deal--since dropped--to allow a Dubai company to run operations at some U.S. ports...