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...Neagle to deals, the Sox will still need a bat. The team cannot expect to field the same lineup again next year and simply hope that everyone has better seasons than they did in 2000. Recent acquisitions Dave Nillson and Chris Stynes were nice pickups, but they are platoon players at best and won't cut the mustard in the everyday lineup...
...goal is to need and want to play 10-plus players like Florida did under Billy Donovan," Delaney-Smith said. "He didn't platoon; he just runs and presses and runs and presses. You can't tell when the bench is in or when the starters...
Senior Patricia Kemp (1 g, 4 a) is the leader of a veteran defensive unit that includes sophomore Brooke Bestwick (2 g, 9 a) and junior Eva Nahorniak (2 g, 5 a). Behind the blueliners, sophomores Liz Connelly, Sanya Sandahl and transfer Kristin Perry will platoon at goaltender...
...second case, 1st Lt. John S. Serafini, an A Company platoon leader, and Sgt. Adam B. Gitlin, mistreated an ethnic Albanian suspected of a grenade attack on a Serbian bar. The suspect claimed Gitlin beat him during a hostile interrogation. "1st Lt. Serafini attempted to stick his sheath knife with a six- inch long blade into the wall," the report said. "... When 1st Lt. Serafini was unsuccessful in sticking the knife in the wall, he repeatedly stuck the knife into a table." In a second incident, Serafini unloaded his revolver, walked back into a room and held...
...platoon pinned down by enemy fire will be able to pull a bird-size airplane out of a rucksack and use its video camera to spy over the next hill, behind buildings and beyond eyesight. Such micro-air vehicles will fly as far as six miles from their takeoff point for as long as two hours, feeding video images back to special military ground stations that will use the information to coordinate ground attacks and air strikes. Pentagon researchers are busy developing aviation assets even tinier than such mechanical sparrows. They're training honeybees, parasitic wasps and giant sphinx moths...