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...exchange for whatever aid they receive, the students must pledge to serve three or four years in the armed forces after graduation. While not every officer ends up in Iraq or Afghanistan, deployment to a war zone is, at present always a possibility...
...such circumstances it is foolish to imagine that there can be a victory for anyone. The best that we can hope for is that the process of national reconciliation set in train by an American withdrawal will be as speedy and as limited in its violence as the present grim circumstances allow...
...could be high-risk targets for hackers. Researchers from the University of Massachusetts, University of Washington, Beth-Israel Deaconess Hospital, and Harvard Medical School found that hackers could intercept patient information and reprogram the device, potentially endangering the patient by sending additional electrical signals to the heart. The researchers presented their findings last Wednesday, in anticipation of the publication of their paper, “Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses.” The study focused on the Medtronic Maximo, an IMD with wireless capabilities. These typically work over short distances and allow...
...Summers’ successor Drew G. Faust, who took office this fall, was not present at the commissioning last summer. She did have an ROTC color guard participate in her installation ceremony...
...once they do get involved, there is the problem of the unstated dress code. Women in politics have similar issues—Hillary has to wear pantsuits and short hair not because they are the best look for her figure but because of the image she has to present. Masculinity translates, to some degree, into competence. By contrast, if you are a female comic, you have to try not to look too much like a man, unless you are Rosie O’ Donnell, in which case you don’t have much choice in the matter. Being funny...