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...idea of how much the lines dividing male and female roles have blurred--or vanished--TIME joined a unit of U.S. military police from the 10th Mountain's 1st Brigade on patrol along the reedy canals and palm groves outside Baghdad. This is a favorite route for insurgents streaming in from Fallujah. As the troops load into their humvees, Sergeant Lenore Swenson, 25, from Colorado Springs, Colo., who dreams of leaving the Army someday and buying a horse ranch, tucks her flaxen hair under her helmet. Her friendly grin vanishes beneath a black fire-retardant mask with goggles. She trained...
...fight the losing battle of trying to look pretty in Iraq's sandstorms and winter sludge--or "hooah girls," named after the motivational grunt of obedience that soldiers give their superiors. "We females do combat ops," says Sergeant Brandy Everett, 25, a self-confessed hooah girl from Rocky Mountain, N.C. "And you know what? I enjoy it." Still, some women in the military--and a good number of men--admit that the dangers of serving in Iraq have been jarring. Many enlisted before the Iraq war, when military life for privates was much the same as working in, say, McDonald...
...would be a liability in hand-to-hand combat. Some commanders grumble about the loss of personnel in their units as a result of shipping home pregnant women. When Collins brought a group of female soldiers--assigned to search women during raids on suspected insurgent hideouts--to the 10th Mountain infantry's camp, she says, "the men all had one big frown, as if to say, 'What the hell are you doing here?'" She angrily demanded the infantrymen give her female soldiers breathing space so they could prove their worth. Usually in such circumstances, the men oblige, says Collins...
...Cowboys in Love Your story amply addressed straight people's insecurities about Brokeback Mountain, but you ought to have mentioned that the movie never would have been made without decades of equal-rights activism by gay men and lesbians. John Olski Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin...
...exclusive mountain getaway first opened its doors in 1901, attracting the likes of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy and Albert, King of the Belgians, until its first dark spell, when it was turned into a military hospital during World War I. History repeated itself during World War II, but the hotel rebounded both times. It re-established its place in the winter sun as a dormitory for Winter Olympics athletes in 1956, and prominent guests returned in droves. Lolita author Vladimir Nabokov visited with his butterfly net as his constant companion, to the amusement of fellow residents. When Frank Sinatra...