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...northern Iraq late last fall. Those who came to Mosul found themselves in the midst of a battle the U.S. military had supposedly won years ago. This northern Iraqi city of 1.8 million people was thought to have been pacified in 2003, when the 101st Airborne Division under then Major General David Petraeus executed a counterinsurgency strategy that many military analysts regarded as a model approach for the rest of Iraq. But Petraeus' successes largely disappeared soon after the 101st Airborne left the city in early 2004; Mosul's U.S.-trained police force collapsed, and insurgents drifted...
This used to be a municipal yard where the city parked dump trucks, steamrollers, backhoes and other vehicles. Norris and other officers had another spot in mind for the outpost, which overlooks the point where the main road linking Baghdad and northern Iraq meets a major artery running east and west. But insurgents had watched the troops as they scouted locations, and a sick comedy of explosions unfolded. Soldiers would eye a building and develop plans to occupy it, only to see it bombed shortly after they had visited it. At some point, someone graffitied a misspelled insult in English...
...applied-math major, Travis Haussler knows plenty about probability. But when asked to explain how the universe could allow Caltech, the college basketball team on which he plays, to lose 273 straight league games since 1985, Haussler is stumped. The Beavers--nature's engineers--had just dropped another heartbreaker, an overtime defeat to the University of La Verne, 80-74. Playing on its home court in Pasadena, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech's full name) had a 9-point lead in the first half. Yet the Beavers kept the most infamous streak in college hoops alive. "One little rebound...
...take the initiative to care for their own wellbeing and the wellbeing of the community. Developing a caring campus, in part, depends on recognizing how excessive stress can be debilitating to individuals and then our entire community. In multiple surveys our students repeatedly report that stress is the major impediment to academic performance. Indeed, surveys consistently show that almost 50 percent of students feel overwhelmed in a way that has interfered with their academic work at some time during the past year. Only by developing a caring attitude towards each other and being willing to care for our own well...
...chance literally in the final second, but Dekanich makes one last glove save on a rebound to secure the tie. We've got to get going, I'm sure we're going to have to dig our metallic gray rental car, which we have dubbed "El Zorro de Plata" (major shout...