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...critical to our way of life remains unprotected: water and food supplies; refineries, energy grids and pipelines; bridges, tunnels, trains, trucks and cargo containers; as well as the cyberbackbone that underpins the information age in which we live. The security measures we have been cobbling together are hardly fit to deter amateur thieves, vandals and hackers, never mind determined terrorists. Worse still, small improvements are often oversold as giant steps forward, lowering the guard of average citizens as they carry on their daily routine with an unwarranted sense of confidence. For instance, while the flying public is busy shedding shoes...
...Eliot Dining Hall, deliberately eating first a bowl of lentil soup, then a small plate of succotash, one might wonder if she has grown accustomed to this type of food. The difficulty of returning to Harvard surprises students, who expect—and are expected—to fit right back into the undergraduate lifestyle. Harvard is known for its rapid pace, as overachieving students fill their lives with extracurricular activities on top of the requisite schoolwork. “I had grown really comfortable with my life in Tanzania,” says Panarelli. “I definitely...
...freshman with striking blue eyes and a pretty face, prefers going to college parties when she goes off-campus. She was well aware of the fact that Wellesley would have a very different social scene than the coeducational colleges that she was considering; the college was otherwise the perfect fit. Pelliccia appreciates the quality of education, the sense of sisterhood, and the lack of regular sexual politics on the Wellesley campus...
However, Jones also recognized the value of college students traveling to other communities to perform social services. He said that such trips provide opportunities to wrestle with the “root causes” of social problems and can be oriented to fit the local community’s needs...
...routine mission. Minutes after Makwakwa's humvee pulled out of Camp Liberty last December, bad news crackled over the radio: a supply convoy of six 18-wheel trucks was ambushed at Checkpoint 50, a freeway cloverleaf that is a notorious shooting alley for insurgents. Makwakwa, a bright, fit New Orleans native, handles medical logistics for the U.S. 10th Mountain Division--the kind of deskbound job often assigned to women G.I.s. Now she found herself wearing a first-aid kit on her belt, gripping an M-4 rifle and crawling on her stomach as enemy fire rained down. "I could hear...