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The Army's current fast-deploying force is the 82nd Airborne's ready brigade, which is set to move within 37 hours. But the Army couldn't deploy such a unit to Kosovo for action. In recent years, the Army scrapped the aging but light Sheridan tank it once used...
More fundamentally, globality confronts us with two sets of issues. At the national level, the role of governments has to be redefined. As their ability to influence business activity is increasingly constrained and their margin of maneuver shrinks before the overwhelming power of financial markets, governments are under pressure to...
The board agreed that the U.S. had room to maneuver, particularly because flourishing U.S. markets are soaking up lots of foreign-held dollars. Nevertheless, as Hormats says, "this is unsustainable. It creates growing risks the longer it lasts and the bigger it gets."
Spectacular flames rose from the freighter New Carissa after the U.S. Navy detonated explosives and napalm-spiked gasoline in its hull. The ship had run aground off the Oregon coast and storm-whipped waves had torn into it, threatening an environmental disaster if all 400,000 gallons of oil within...
Now it looks as though they will. On Feb. 6 a remarkable space probe called Stardust is scheduled to take off for a January 2004 encounter with Comet Wild (pronounced Vilt) 2. With a tennis racquet-size collector, Stardust will snatch dust particles from the comet's tail as it...