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...makes sense after the U.S. learned that getting soldiers out of their vehicles and mixing among the locals was a key to turning Iraq around. Weapons designed to kill from afar may not be best for counterinsurgencies, in which intelligence is most often gleaned only by personal contact. General Peter Chiarelli, the Army's No. 2 officer, disputes the idea that FCS "is a Cold War relic." But not everyone agrees. Retired Army officer Andrew Krepinevich Jr., who advises the Pentagon as president of the independent Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, says the U.S. already can do from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Robert Gates Tame the Pentagon? | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...chemist Joseph Rosefield fixed peanut butter's tendency to separate by adding hydrogenated vegetable oil; he called the thick, creamy result Skippy (probably after a popular comic strip), and a brand was born. Within the decade, Skippy was fighting it out with other established brands like Peter Pan and Heinz. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches invaded children's lunch boxes soon after: by one 2002 estimate, the average American child eats 1,500 PB&J sandwiches before graduating from high school. In the 1990s, nut-allergy fears led some schools to eliminate peanuts from cafeteria menus. Still, peanut butter remains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of Peanut Butter | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...who’s on a tough three-game skid and sitting near the bottom of the Ivies? Your Penn Quakers! And you know what, it will not be getting any easier for sophomore Tyler Bernardini and company. Brown has two players—junior Matt Mullery and sophomore Peter Sullivan—who work a lethal one-two combination for the Bears. I think the squad can get a game this season—just not this...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Ancient Eight in State of Disarray | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...package included additional funding for the NIH, the bill includes far less for the physical sciences—the House’s stimulus package would provide the National Science Foundation with an additional $3 billion, and the Senate version allocates only $1.2 billion. —Staff Writer Peter F. Zhu can be reached at pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Senate Stimulus Would Up NIH Funding | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

...Huerta’s lifelong fight for social justice is, as David G. Hernandez ’09 puts it, a “testament to the power each one of us possesses to make a positive difference.” Her acceptance of the Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian of the Year Award, given by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, is a fitting celebration of increased opportunity for Chicanos, Latinos, women, and workers. It also commends the struggle for equal rights and a better life for all, the struggle for the American dream...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo, Miguel Garcia, and Eliana C. Murillo | Title: Yes, She Did! | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

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