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...assigned to the aircraft carrier Junyo to train 18 bomber pilots. My mission was to attack Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands at the same time as the attack on Midway. The commander didn't know anything about planes. Since he remembered the dive bombers' pinpoint strikes in the Indian Ocean, he wanted to use them. But it was not the kind of battle for dive bombers to fight. I lost four of my men. When we returned to Japan, I heard that the carriers Akagi, Soryu and Hiryu had been sunk by careless mistakes at Midway. Then I realized...
...matter how well a candidate may be able to pinpoint his base of support, however, the basic costs of a campaign still remain and the need for effective and lucrative fundraising is just as important...
...getting lost, using a technology that the Army made famous during Operation Desert Storm. To find their bearings in the desert landscape, soldiers relied on hand-held electronic gadgets called Global Positioning System receivers. The devices, which pick up signals from a $10 billion network of U.S. satellites, can pinpoint a location instantly anywhere on the earth...
...Cali operative was arrested with the name of a Baltimore lumberyard in his pocket. There, agents saw piles of mahogany boards sliced end to end, with pockets hollowed out and the tops veneered on. A few more clues popped up over the years, but nothing to pinpoint which planks, among the tons of lumber imported from South America, contained contraband...
Using advanced laboratory tests that had been developed only in the past few years, both sets of scientists discovered an explosive growth of virus in the men's bloodstreams. (Half of the men were able to pinpoint exactly when they became infected, and in each case it was during unprotected sex.) Each liter of the men's blood contained as many as 10 million infectious viruses. "This is the first time anyone has reported such high levels of infectious virus early on," says Dr. Eric Daar, a specialist in infectious disease and one of the leaders of the UCLA study...