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...phrase is intended to send a message: in the U.S. armed forces, every person counts. If you take a round, your buddies will come and get you. "The Ranger creed is that you do not leave a fallen comrade on the field of battle," says David Anderson, of Jacksonville, Fla., a former Ranger whose son, Marc Anthony Anderson, followed him into the Army. "I really believed in what the creed says, and Marc did. He said, 'If something happens to me, don't worry, because you'll have a body...
...Qaeda leaders huddled in their caves in the Shah-i-Kot mountains last week, enduring allied bombs, howling snowstorms and temperatures that fell to 15[degrees]F, their counterparts were prosecuting the war from sunny Tampa, Fla. High-tech warfare allows General Tommy Franks and his Central Command officers to run the battle from MacDill Air Force Base, 7,700 miles from Kabul. The command center at MacDill monitors all the intelligence from the region and beams Franks' orders to his field generals. Last week he directed the largest fight of the war so far. A few days before Operation...
...treasury money may not be used for broadcast ads that mention a federal candidate (what you call attack ads) for 30 days before a primary or 60 days prior to an election. This is an obvious violation of the First Amendment's free-speech clause. TOM POTTER South Daytona, Fla...
...fact, is just as important as planning your estate. People without kids need to prepare for that major, life-altering illness long before it happens or before they start to see changes in their health, says Rose Glamoclija, registered nurse and owner of Boca Nursing Services, a Boca Raton, Fla., geriatric-care agency. "If you get to the point where you're alone and suffer a stroke, it's too late," says Glamoclija...
...CITY The U.S. government reports that the rate of gonorrhea infections nationwide finally leveled off in 2000. That's the good news. The bad? It shot up more than 20% in cities like Buffalo, N.Y.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Detroit; Nashville, Tenn.; and Kansas City, Mo. The best way to prevent the sexually transmitted disease is abstinence or condoms. But don't count on help from the spermicide nonoxynol-9. Contrary to expectations, a separate report shows that nonoxynol-9 does nothing to kill off gonorrhea bacteria...