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...trying to limit Iraq tours to a year, the Army increasingly has had to rely on the National Guard and Army Reserve to help fill the roster of 150,000 troops in Iraq. Those part-time forces represent 40% of the current U.S. troop strength in Iraq and will grow to 50% in coming months. There were about 160,000 National Guard and Army reservists on active duty last week, including 60,000 inside Iraq. In a Dec. 20 memo published in the Baltimore Sun last week, Lieut. General James Helmly, chief of the Army Reserve, warned that the wars...
...great pain. We can only imagine the dread those thousands experienced when the waters roared up, the terror so many mothers felt as waves swept their little children away or the anguish of nameless fishermen trapped under beached and broken vessels. Even today the death toll still continues to grow, grimly marching ever higher...
...says Seif, who knows how valuable his country's crude is to the West. Who will have the upper hand in the negotiations remains to be seen. But with both sides motivated to get the oil pumping, Libya's importance to the world economy, and to America, will only grow...
...tectonics--the almost imperceptibly slow movement of massive plates--of the southern Indian Ocean as complex because a number of plates converge there. The floor of the Indian Ocean--the Indian plate--is moving north at around 2.5 in. per year, about twice the rate that your fingernails grow. As it moves, it is forced under the Burma plate to its east. Eighteen miles below the surface of the ocean, stresses that had been gradually accumulating forced the Burma plate to snap upward. That was a huge geological event, eventually measured at 9.0 on the Richter scale. The dislocation...
...less free from these plights. For one, its relative unpopularity makes it an unattractive target for the spammers and spyware authors that write the code that breaks Internet Explorer. You might ask, however, if Firefox is unpopular now and we all take your advice, won’t it grow into a big enough target such that it stops passing under the bad guys’ radar? Fortunately the browser has quite a bit more going for it: Released by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, it is an open-source application created by people who like writing good software...