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...Since 2007, the Pentagon's Human Terrain System (HTS) has been placing social scientists in every Army combat brigade, regiment and Marine Corps regimental combat team. There are now more than 500 people employed by HTS, a number that is increasing rapidly. On the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan, their job is to gather information and provide commanders with a greater understanding of the local population, reducing the need for lethal force by helping the Army determine the needs of the community, according to Steve Fondacaro, the project manager at HTS. Secretary of State Robert Gates has publicly praised...
...didn't even cede ground to her husband's evangelical supporters. While he continually compared himself to the adulterer's go-to biblical character, the Byronesque King David, Jenny artfully let herself be associated with Job, a far more humble, consistent figure. Although people of faith adore the redeemed sinner, they save their admiration for the martyrs...
...prestigious annual list put out by Restaurant magazine. (No. 1 is Ferran Adria's El Bulli in Spain and No. 2 is Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck in Britain.) The animal skin rugs thrown over the back of the chairs and the bleached wood remind you that this is ground zero for the new Nordic cuisine, in which a traditional focus on pickling, shellfish, a lot of rye and root vegetables is combined with the full panoply of a modern professional kitchen's tricks. Here, a single raw razor clam comes encased in a magical tube of parsley gelee...
...economic surge must not be a substitute for efforts to reach a comprehensive peace. But it could complement the quest for a final-status agreement by showcasing the benefits that peace would bring both sides. Or it could be the foundation for a ground-up approach in which the two sides focus first on resolving border issues and land swaps, which are actually easier to resolve than they may appear. In the process, Fayyad and Abbas would be shored up. The next step would be tackling trading arrangements, water rights and other practical matters. The thornier ideological issues that...
...data that would have prevented the crash, "but tragically no one caught the mistake," the investigation concluded. McDowell, of Colorado Springs, and Gramith, of Eagan, Minn., "were dedicated warriors who lost their lives trying to maintain proficient at an attack necessary to save other Americans' lives on the ground." Their co-mingled remains are buried under a single headstone at Arlington National Cemetery...