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...sold her car and now relies on public transportation. Another has taken on freelance work for the weekends, even though she hasn't lost her job. In the interest of disclosure, we are all "of a certain age," and it is natural for a particular sort of gravity to kick in at about the 30-year mark. (A friend recently noted that turning 31 is like being in the ocean and no longer seeing the shore. Ah, to be young!) But this, I'm pretty sure, is different. This feels like more than run-of-the-mill buckling down...
...That got us acclimated to the gore that we see. Fulton County also has a decomp room where they store bodies that have been decomposing for any length of time. So we went to that room and got to smell the stench of death. That was like the initial kick in the butt. Then after that, we had a month of classroom training. We would do mock search-and-recoveries out in the woods, looking for fallen soldiers Stateside before we were deployed. (See "A TIME Photographer's Iraq Diary...
...these technology upgrades are necessary, says Rickey Smith of the Army Capabilities Integration Center, because "the Taliban have evolved and the more robust they get, the more counterinsurgency and elements of national power are needed to kick into the effort." The urgency felt by the Pentagon is reflected by Gen. Richard Cody, formerly the Army's vice chief of staff, as he talked about fielding ODIN throughout Afghanistan: "We are building as many as we can as fast...
...weaned on a different type of football. But MLS has steadily grown since its inception, and on March 18, the league announced it would award its 17th franchise to Vancouver, which in 2011 will become the second Canadian city to field a club. With its 14th campaign about to kick off, TIME spoke to Commissioner Don Garber about the league's growth, its goals, and its most famous player, David Beckham...
That plan went nowhere, and in mid-February Geithner announced that the government would design a partnership between private investors and the feds that would kick-start a trading market for the assets. But figuring out what mix of incentives and restraints should be written into the program has proved extremely tricky...