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...Officers were dispatched to Claverly Hall to note the theft of a Hewlett-Packard laptop and a blue nylon backpack. The combined cost of the stolen items...
...Officers were dispatched to Claverly Hall to note the theft of a Hewlett-Packard laptop and a blue nylon backpack. The combined cost of the stolen items...
...Officers were dispatched to Claverly Hall to note the theft of a Hewlett-Packard laptop and a blue nylon backpack. The combined cost of the stolen items...
...helmet is only the latest sartorial gaffe foisted on the fighting man. Last year the Army admitted that its cotton-nylon fatigues, introduced in 1980, tore easily and were unbearably hot in warm climates, and the Pentagon canceled a new combat boot that tended to fall apart. Said one Army expert: "We don't even like to talk about that one." Like the boots, the faulty helmets will probably be replaced. But there is a defect in the process of trying to correct the defect: the military is still trying to trace the units that are wearing the helmets. TENNESSEE...
Mention mountain climbing, and most people envisage an exhausting clamber up sheer rock faces or dangling from a nylon rope in all weathers. That's absolutely true of some peaks, but Asia also offers less taxing alternatives. You don't need a Sherpa's lungs to scale some of the region's best-loved mountains, and you can get to the foot of many of them by public transport. Some even have comfortable trailhead accommodation...