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...born warriors like??Zielinski, the opportunity to put those lessons into practice can't come soon enough. Yet while West Point has been producing generals for 200 years, not every generation hears the same call. When Major Jason Amerine was attending West Point in the early '90s, the appeal of a career in uniform was fading. The Berlin Wall fell during his freshman year. "We went from the cold war to a thousand points of light," he recalls. "The feeling was, What are we doing?" During the first Gulf War, in 1991, the academy took to playing I'm Proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Class of 9/11 | 5/22/2005 | See Source »

...Like??a seasoned burglar, the virus circles a human cell looking for the easiest point of entry. Within seconds, it has broken into its target, located the nucleus and deftly slipped its genetic material into the cell's DNA. Now whenever the cell divides to copy itself, it also makes copies of the interloper. Soon those multiplying viruses have hijacked not just that cell but also all its neighbors, turning them into one massive virus factory. When the cells can no longer make the proteins they need to survive, they start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Bad Bugs Go Good | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

...waiting to begin a cross-country race." The Soviets are apparently providing Iraq with spare parts, food and ammunition diverted from South Yemen and Ethiopia. U.S. intelligence sources, however, were satisfied that so far there have been no Soviet shipments of lethal heavy weaponry ?tanks, missiles and the like???to Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Gulf Explode? | 10/27/1980 | See Source »

...Vatican and extensive reading have kept him abreast of wider church discussions. Monsignor Zdizislaw Pesz-kowsky, of the Polish-American seminary in Michigan, who has known Wojtyla for 24 years, says that while the new Pope is interested in the liberals' agenda?divorce, celibacy, women priests and the like???he "stresses that these problems must be dealt with by priestly zeal," not further compromise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Foreign Pope | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...What did it look like?" "Like???like???It had the biggest head you ever saw... A huge great enormous thing, like???like nothing. A huge big?well, like a ?I don't know?like an enormous big nothing..." ?A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Those Baffling Black Holes | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

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