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...surprising, then, that some recruiters ignore red flags to enlist marginal candidates. "I've seen [recruiters] make kids drink gallons of water trying to flush marijuana out of their system before they take their physicals," one Houston recruiter says privately. "I've seen them forge signatures." Sign up a pair of enlistees in a month and a recruiter is hailed; sign up none and he can be ordered to monthly Saturday sessions, where he is verbally pounded for his failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Are Army Recruiters Killing Themselves? | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

Every now and then, the drastic end of flush economic times happens to coincide with the natural end of a conservative political era. Such was the case in the 1930s - coming after three straight conservative presidencies, a period of whizbang technological progress (electrification, radio, aviation) and a culture of bon temps rouler - and such is the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of Excess: Is This Crisis Good for America? | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

...that the kitchen has been known to flood…with sewage. For reference, look at the infamous incident of February 2008, which spurred Resident Dean Gregg Peeples to e-mail residents with this solemn warning: “Until things are brought under control, every thing you flush or otherwise send down the drain in our building will end up in the basement.” Gross. Might as well throw in a mention of that hideous wall sitting right in the middle of the room, too. Really detracts from the rest of the beauty? I guess...

Author: By Emma M. Lind | Title: The Housing Crisis: Winthrop House | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...destroy it, the population must actively turn against subversive elements within it, and either fight or flush them out in the same way that Sunni tribal sheiks in Anbar switched sides and allied with the Americans against al-Qaeda in their province, a movement known as the Sahwa. That hasn't happened yet, General Brown says, because Mosul's diverse makeup has proved difficult to foster such a movement. The Anbar Sahwa fell into line behind tribal sheiks, whose word is law, but Nineveh is not exclusively a tribal society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Mosul, Iraq's Insurgency Refuses to Be Tamed | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...That's why I've decided to save print journalism. My first idea was to get every reporter to switch beats and cover only cats doing funny things. Then I had some more Pom Wonderful, allowed the antioxidants to flush out my free radicals and came up with the perfect solution: product placement. (Read "How to Save Your Newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Journalist Is Brought to You by ... | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

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