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...China's economy cannot stand on its own without the U.S. economy recovering its foundation, which is consumer spending. That means that the prospects of rapid GDP growth in the world's most populous nation remain doubtful...
Central to this task is the question of how best to balance protection, mobility and survivability in one vehicle. Lighter weight combat vehicles are key to rapid deployment but vehicles built for heavy combat are more likely to survive explosive encounters. IED protection for prospective vehicles could be improved with V-shaped hulls that would better divert the force of the bombs. Additional armor could also be added to the existing designs of the 27-ton vehicles to better protect against RPGs and, just in case, enemy tank fire. The Army Research Lab could also receive more funding to speed...
...conflicts end? At the end of a week of gaming, the results were mixed. In the Central Asian conflict, says Army Spokesman Harvey Perritt, the NATO rapid reaction force coupled with humanitarian assistance was able to decrease the violence along the border between Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. The Korean problem, however, remained largely unresolved. "With the Korean Peninsula," says Perritt, "the problem is bigger than just military." The conclusions drawn from the exercise, he said, were more "informational and cultural." The response to a North Korean attack, he says, would have to require diplomatic, humanitarian and other solutions, including the involvment...
...book, The Morning After, Katie Roiphe ’90 traced the rapid rise of movements like Take Back the Night at Harvard as well as the culture surrounding this increased “awareness.” Roiphe argued that women must take at least some responsibility for what goes on in her sexual interactions, in light of the active role they tend to play in their own day-to-day lives. For the most part, Roiphe’s observations were dismissed as anti-women...
...case we had any doubts, the rapid spread of the H1N1 virus should convince us that biologically, we live in one world, sharing microbes between species and across borders. When it comes to crafting a global early-warning system equal to the challenges posed by new pathogens, we're only as strong as our weakest link, whether that's the lack of animal-disease surveillance in the U.S. or the less-than-ideal laboratory capacity in Mexico. "We have to break down the barriers between organizations and agencies," says Lubroth. "It's one world, one health...