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...Iraqi regime insists that it does not have any weapons of mass destruction, including biological ones. But the Bush Administration is sufficiently worried about a possible smallpox attack against the forces set to invade Iraq that last month it ordered vaccinations for 500,000 frontline military personnel...
These soldiers are trained to move out fast and often, but not since the 1991 Gulf War has the entire 3rd Infantry Division, to which Beets' company belongs, been ordered to deploy at one time. The 15,000 troops plus all manner of support personnel that make up the armored force are just some of the nearly 100,000 U.S. soldiers now moving out from across the country to join the 60,000 already in the gulf. You can track the exodus in numbers. It's harder to track it in lives, unless you come to a place like Fort...
...terrible. A rear tire blew out on the Isuzu SUV as it traveled on Florida's "Alligator Alley" west of Fort Lauderdale, flipping the vehicle and hurling several members of a family onto the highway. A girl perished on the highway; her brother would die hours later. Medical personnel who happened to be in the surrounding cars rushed to the rescue of the other victims. A physician helped clear the windpipe of a woman and resuscitate two of the other injured, staying long enough to direct the arriving paramedics to those who most needed help. Only after he left...
...Target. Wal-Mart offers health benefits, and its stock plan has been a wealth builder for many lower-level employees, at least until the market crashed. Still, Wal-Mart is regarded as offering ample opportunities for advancement. Charlyn Jarrells Porter, who heads the Wal-Mart division that deals with personnel issues, says two-thirds of its managers come from the ranks of store associates, which is what Wal-Mart calls all employees. This year the company will enroll 5,500 people in its management-training program. "If the jobs are so bad," she asks," why are so many people working...
...Suit up. Walk past the part of the room where coach Peter Brand posted the Columbia Spectator’s account of the Harvard men’s team’s 14-13 upset of Columbia on Nov. 24. In the article, Columbia whined about equipment failure and personnel and offered Pat Riley-esque reflections on what happens when gun machines meet knives. You learn from competitors even when you haven’t faced any for a while...