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...this day, the ears of Molly M. Simmons ’05 perk up whenever the Naval Academy is mentioned. In June of her senior year, Simmons was all set to enlist. The papers were signed and the Academy had a spot reserved for her. For Simmons, whose father and two sisters are all Harvard alumni, it would have been a huge departure from family tradition. At the last minute—two weeks before she was scheduled to leave for Annapolis—Simmons changed her mind, trading in her regulation blues for bright crimson...
...Patrolling: maintaining a balance of power in the region principally through an offshore naval presence...
...DISMISSED. STEVEN KUNKLE, commander of the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk aircraft battle group, after he was found to have "engaged in an improper relationship with a female naval officer"; in Yokosuka, Japan. The Kitty Hawk has been deployed to the Gulf as the U.S. prepares for a possible war with Iraq...
...next: sensors used to secure naval-base perimeters are being adapted to protect nuclear power plants and major landmarks. As for those dummies--technically, "medical simulator mannequins"--they have been deployed by the military to train MASH units and are being adapted for civilian emergency medical teams and teaching hospitals. The more sophisticated civilian models, costing $50,000 to $150,000 each, have variable pulses, respiration rates, oxygen saturation counts, pupil dilation and other programmable manifestations of sickness and injury...
...several months Saeed and his co-defendants?who were accused of sending out ransom demands and photos of Pearl in captivity?were the police's only suspects. But in May, a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a bus carrying French naval technicians who were hired to work on a Pakistani submarine. The blast killed 11 Frenchmen and three Pakistanis, and it galvanized the Pakistani government into a wider crackdown on militant groups in Karachi. Hundreds of people were arrested, including Karim and Bukhari. Under interrogation, they confessed to helping abduct Pearl, then led police to his body...