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Pentagon personnel managers have tried to increase the length of time between deployments--most soldiers get 20 months between tours. Pentagon officials say Army units deploy to Iraq for a year and Marines ship out for six months, but units from both services have been known to stay in Iraq longer. Says an Army general: "Are they stressed? Yes. Will it get worse? Yes. Is it affecting their combat ability...
...wasn't the spider that scared Miss Muffet--it was that stuff in her bowl. White, clumpy, sour, often runny, yogurt did not inspire children to plead with their mothers at the supermarket. Nor did it get much closer to American mouths than arm's length, from which those mothers could read the list of ingredients to be reminded that yogurt is animated by at least two types of live bacteria: Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus. Pudding, anyone? Aisle...
...unless no domestic source exists. A Crane competitor, the British paper manufacturer De La Rue, has threatened to complain to the World Trade Organization about the unfair advantage the Conte Amendment gives Crane. Congress also threw up a hurdle for Crane's American competitors. By setting the contract's length at four years, the law makes it difficult for companies without extremely deep pockets to justify investing in the security technology needed for making currency paper...
Horses are undeniably born to run, a survival strategy that befits a prairie herbivore with neither fangs nor claws. While a lot of animals are fleet of foot, horses achieve their speed more elegantly than most, starting with their disproportionately long legs. Limb length usually means bulk, since it takes a lot of muscle to move long bones. But muscles add weight, and weight reduces speed. The horse solves that problem by packing its musculature in its upper body, then transferring that power down to the legs with an elaborate rope work of tendons and ligaments that absorb shock...
...more years to complete a bachelor’s degree, while American students are often discouraged from doing so by college rules. The reason is simple; in this country, college, like high school, is understood to be a phase in one’s education of a prescribed length, undertaken with peers who are similar in age and inexperience. Engineering programs, which can force an added semester—or more—on their students, take a bite out of this part of the college philosophy.By creating a quasi-independent School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard institutionalizes...