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...most recent addition to the market is Jones Soda Co.’s simply titled Energy Drink, a sibling product to Jones’ Whoop Ass Cola. SoBe and Mountain Dew have gotten into the game as well, with their respective products Adrenaline Rush...
...Monday morning, a detachment from the U.S. 10th Mountain Division arrived from Uzbekistan. Perhaps in order to prepare the way for an assault by the 10th Mountain, the Americans inside the fort called in an air strike to pound the Taliban position shortly before 11a.m. - with disastrous results. Perry reports that a massive bomb, later identified by officials as a U.S. JDAM smart bomb, missed the Taliban position by around 600 feet, detonating barely 30 feet from the Northern alliance position and almost on top of the spotters who had called in the strike...
...Outside the compound, the American retrieval mission quickly turned into one of rescue, as the 10th Mountain forces drove their seven light vehicles into the fort to evacuate the stricken U.S. and British troops. Northern Alliance commanders were spitting with rage. "Call it off!" shouted one general as Alliance soldiers streamed out of the fort. "Call it off! You've hit the wrong people!" Perry can confirm that at least three Afghan soldiers were killed and four injured by the stray bomb; one Northern Alliance commander put the numbers far higher, at 30 killed and 50 wounded...
...grade inflation were as bad as Mansfield and others would have us believe, one would expect a mountain of students with perfect GPAs. In reality, there has been only one in the last decade. The inevitable corollary to students being able to distinguish themselves as much as ever is that people are able to judge—without increasing difficulty or trouble—which students deserve entry to the best law, business, medical and graduate schools. One does not hear postgraduate admissions committees decrying grade inflation as making their lives difficult, because it is not doing so. Is Yale...
...adventurous side also brought him to South America for a hiking trip in Patagonia this month. But as he, Owen I. Breck ’01 and Robert A. D. Pike ’01 drove along a gravel mountain road near the town of Puerto Madryn, Argentina on Wednesday morning, their car flipped over, killing Lewis...