Word: medicalizing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...peshmerga are as tough as Ansar is ruthless. "These guys literally walk up the mountain, get wounded and walk back down," says a U.S. medic. "They're tough sons of bitches." On Friday, as the medic worked at a casualty collection point, he says one wounded Kurdish soldier with a head wound simply straggled in, walked up and just "died...
...machine gunners took positions at the end of the bridge, pointing into town. But Charlie Rock has been driving all night through the desert, there's traffic on the horizon, and it's only a few minutes before the men are lying in the sun and "Rock Doc", the medic Track, is filling the air with...
...uncomfortable discussing politics, and prefers to quote scripture rather than Saddam. But if the family were required to put up resistance to an invading force, he will have the first right to the AK-47. Not only is he the patriarch, he's also a war veteran: as a medic during the Gulf War, Zaki saw active duty in Kuwait. "I know how to use a gun very well," he says, without a trace of bravado. "You won't find an Iraqi man of my age who hasn't experienced...
...grandfather served as a medic in World War II, a war that really was necessary to preserve freedom. Every man he trained with was killed. Now he refuses to watch a movie or read a book that has anything to do with war. The President is willing to let thousands of Americans die in his quest for global supremacy. I would gladly go into battle against Iraq or any other nation that is a threat, as long as George W. Bush led the charge like the warrior he fancies himself to be. PETER MCINERNEY Chicago...
...well, a cell phone. The devices, which block phone signals in an area the size of a dining room or a bus, can be legally bought in Israel and Japan. They are prohibited in the U.S., Canada and Britain, but NetLine of Tel Aviv--a leading manufacturer along with Medic, based in Tokyo--says the U.S. and Europe are its biggest markets. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission says it knows of no arrests of people using jammers but warns that they risk an $11,000 fine and a year in prison...