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...independent panel on coed training in the military had been appointed in June by Defense Secretary William Cohen because of the 1996 sex scandal at Maryland's Aberdeen Proving Ground, where drill sergeants preyed on young recruits. The panel's members--six women and five men--included retired military officers, lawyers, academics and a former journalist. What surprised many Pentagon officials was that the resulting report seemed to focus as much on sex between recruits as it did on sergeant-trainee abuse...
...that volunteering in their communities has helped them understand people who are different from themselves, has opened up new career possibilities to them and has enlarged their horizons. According to one poll, more than half of teenage respondents said that their grades improved as a result of volunteering. In Maryland, which has a "service-learning" requirement that students must fulfill to graduate from high school, one initially reluctant volunteer later wrote a first-person account for the Washington Post, in which she confessed that her experience in community service was generally positive and actually added value to her resume...
...wanted this really badly," Feaster said. "The fact that we lost to Maryland, that they beat Maryland, that they beat us last year and that they were very, very sure of a win all came into play...
...They have never told the truth," complains a senior Pentagon official. In fact, the truth about the production of biological killers is hard to come by. The techniques involved in turning out bioweapons are essentially "World War II-type science," says Raymond Zilinskas, a biologist at the University of Maryland, who participated in two U.N. inspection tours in Iraq. He says the mixing of poisons can be carried out by technicians with only modest scientific training using ordinary commercial equipment. The fermenters and centrifuges used every day in dairies, wineries and pharmaceutical houses, for example, can be quickly converted...
...carried by the Gulf Stream all the way up to Long Island, N.Y. (it takes three to five years), where they feed for a year on the defenseless spider crab as a training exercise before they take off again and swim down to the Chesapeake Bay area in Maryland, where they eat the much tougher blue claw crab for which the Long Island boot camp has prepared them? Needless to say, they made my inventory...