Word: forts
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Despite U.S. embarrassment at the humiliation of its Georgian ally, the U.S. Army's tankers and artillerymen at Fort Knox's armor school have been encouraged by the success of the Russian army's blitzkrieg. Moscow's triumph suggests that there is wisdom behind Defense Secretary Robert Gates' insistence that the U.S. be prepared to wage "full-spectrum operations" - not just the past five years of irregular warfare that America has been engaged in, with small units of soldiers patrolling Baghdad streets and Afghan mountains...
...figure out how to woo Mama Ann, a lifelong liberal in Fort Lauderdale who has been leaning toward John McCain, I called Tennessee's Jewish U.S. Representative Steve Cohen, an early Obama supporter. Cohen's first suggestion was to appeal to the classic Jewish-grandmother soft spots by telling her what terrific schools Obama went to and that he's a lawyer. Then Cohen started working on the commonalities between Obama and Mama Ann. "Barack grew up in Hawaii," Cohen said. "They have lots of beaches." If Cohen really thinks Mama Ann has left her condo...
...deep midwinter of 2002, FBI divers cut holes in the ice and then searched several ponds near a Fort Detrick, Md., biodefense lab for evidence in the anthrax investigation. It was an expensive, cinematic strategy that would ultimately lead nowhere, but no one knew that then. Except perhaps for the older man who stood off to the side handing out coffee and sandwiches. In addition to being a respected scientist, Bruce Ivins was a Red Cross volunteer, manning the canteen. He was known as reliable and cheerful, and he had been asked by the Frederick County, Md., chapter to take...
...Born in Ohio and schooled at the University of Cincinnati, Ivins worked at Fort Detrick for 28 years. He lived in a small white house with his wife and two adopted children, directly across the street from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, and Ivins walked to work. He played the keyboard at St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church, and he liked to write letters to the editors of local papers...
...Meanwhile, the FBI continued to focus its research on Dr. Steven Hatfill, another scientist at Fort Detrick. It proved a consuming distraction. Earlier this year, a federal judge found "not one scintilla of evidence" linking Hatfill to the anthrax mailings, and the government settled with Hatfill in June, agreeing to pay him $2.83 million and an annuity of $150,000. It was not until 2004 that FBI agents realized that Ivins had not given them the exact sample of anthrax they had requested, so an agent went to the lab and confiscated a flask...