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...sign that the resistance is hardening: the assaults, says a senior military official, "are increasing in sophistication." He cites more frequent use of improvised explosive devices as well as standoff weapons like mortars. "They've been getting more and more organized," says Sergeant Joseph Teague of the 101st Airborne, whose platoon patrols the town of Ba'aj, southwest of Mosul. Teague has been ambushed twice in the past two weeks. "In the last two attacks," he says, "they've shot at us from all sides...
...from Heathrow to Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C. to a Baltimore banker who was on his seventh Concorde flight and just wanted to get home faster than taking the traditional flight to New York. There was a corporate pilot who paid $ 9 for his ticket because his brother used frequent flier miles to pay the bulk of the fare. There was acrobatic flying champion David Martin and his wife who was probably secretly wishing they could get to the cockpit and try and roll the plane into a loop...
When your professional, understated resume lands you an interview, it’s time to go out and practice interviews. Brackin says that recruiters often ask open-ended questions—“Tell me about yourself” is a frequent favorite—putting the onus on the student to “have an agenda.” “Know what you want the interviewer to know about you,” she says...
With a striking lack of self-consciousness, Chauvière goes over some of the everyday tasks of his position. For one thing, there were the frequent trips to the airport. “So, you know, you have to prepare your corpse for air travel,” he says. “You strap them in a box, embalm them, put in a couple of pillows—it’s just like putting someone to bed.” For shorter distances, Chauvière hits the open road without the nuisance of nagging back-seat...
...fats to develop properly. After they reach age 2, you've got to be on the lookout for saturated fats as well. "You don't want people to think trans fats are the only bad guys," says Alice Lichtenstein, a nutrition professor at Tufts University in Boston and a frequent spokeswoman for the American Heart Association. "If a cracker has 2% trans and 2% saturated fat, it's better than 7% saturated and 0% trans." Finally, no matter how low McDonald's reduces the amount of trans fat in its French fries, they are never going to be a health...