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...Reagan, for example, airline passengers must remain in their seats within 30 minutes of take off and landing. Reagan has also been the site of two recent security scares when small propeller aircraft unintentionally entered the restricted airspace around Washington and were chased by military fighter jets. Both planes landed without incident...
...preppies of Fairfield, Conn., the brother of a Princeton-grad investment banker and a son of a media executive, he was drawn to military life because he wanted something more than just a good job. He originally had his heart set on going into the Navy to become a fighter pilot, but when he visited West Point, he fell in love with its emphasis on the basic relationship of leader to soldier, its elemental emphasis on men, not machinery. He didn't focus on just the dreamier ideals. The minutiae of leadership and the daily self-assessment--Am I doing...
...manages to pack a war's worth of heresy against Army doctrine into a 50-min. class. He presses cadets to enunciate a meaningful difference between insurgent leader Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi and West Point icon and Revolutionary War hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a Pole who was the foreign fighter of his era. What is a terrorist? Amerine asks. Someone who flies planes into buildings, says a cadet. The Japanese did basically that, says Amerine. Someone who kills civilians, says another. The U.S. did that in Dresden, Amerine replies. He is the tireless devil's advocate, forcing cadets into deeper analysis...
...instance, Nora N. Khan ’05 won for her 100-page fictional work “‘One’ (A Novel),” which tells the story of a young Chechnyan freedom fighter who becomes a suicide bomber from the girl’s own perspective...
...prospects as a cancer fighter continue to intrigue scientists. "Clinically, we are still at the beginning," says Dr. Steven Dubinett, director of the thoracic oncology program at UCLA Medical School. "It would really be a travesty if we were unable to continue." Dubinett says about 10% of his studies' participants dropped out. He is investigating whether Celebrex can prevent cancer, but he faces a real dilemma: How can he give to otherwise healthy people a drug that might not work and might increase their risk of heart attack? "It's going to make it very difficult to do long-term...