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...Navy has deployed maritime commandos since World War II, when amphibious squads fought in the beach landings at Normandy and Pacific-theater operations. The first SEALs--the acronym derives from their proficiency in sea, air and land combat--were commissioned in 1962 by President John F. Kennedy to meet a growing need for guerrilla-warfare specialists. SEALs earned a reputation for valor and stealth in Vietnam, where they conducted clandestine raids in perilous territory. Since then, teams of SEALs have taken on shadowy missions in strife-torn regions around the world, stalking high-profile targets such as Panama's Manuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History Of: The Navy SEALs | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...pick up on the light aspects,” Sarnak says. The Quad that the musical’s title refers to is not the Radcliffe Quadrangle. Rather, it is the four main female leads that the musical tracks from their freshman (Act I) to senior (Act II) years. Along the way, they discover sketchy parties, the “Walk of Shame”, and, eventually, themselves. Although the musical is not set specifically at Harvard, it bears such hallmark phrases of the alma mater as “TF” and “Freshman Week...

Author: By Rebecca J. Levitan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: College Musical: 'The Quad' | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...last several years there’s been a body of new data showing the adverse relationship between sugared drinks and obesity and Type II diabetes,” said Walter C. Willett, chair of the nutrition department. “This problem now has an urgency that did not exist five years...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Web Site Raises Awareness on Sugars | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...were young in the mid-'80s, you'll remember the trauma of that moment - if Coke could change, what couldn't? And if you were Benji's age, you'll remember the party at the roller rink, the Apple II+, the Tears for Fears video and the way everybody said "dag," a word expressive of such complex emotion that you couldn't possibly articulate its meaning. But Whitehead can. "Dag was bitter acknowledgment of the brutish machinery of the world," Benji explains, and he makes it sound so right and true that you wish people would start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dag! | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...course, there were cult movies, and Ballard became best known for those: Steven Spielberg's WW II epic Empire of the Sun and David Cronenberg's adaptation of Crash, the 1996 shock flick that caused a stunned moral panic in Britain 23 years after Ballard's novel was published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: J.G. Ballard | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

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