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Colonel Douglas Evans sits in his modest office at Red River Army Depot, tracking the dozens of war-battered humvees from Iraq that arrive every week to be repaired. Spread across 36,000 acres in Texarkana, Texas, the World War II--era Red River facility is one of the Army's oldest and most important maintenance and storage bases. But Evans, a 24-year Army vet with combat tours in the Balkans and Iraq, says what soldiers need to understand these days is not only bombs and bullets but also diapers...
Changing babies, Evans tells everyone at Red River, is the best model for thinking about how the facility can best help the Army. The faster you can fix a beat-up humvee, the sooner you can get it back into the fight. "You have to be organized," says Evans, who has an M.B.A. from Babson College. "You can't put the baby one place, the wipes another, the baby powder still another. If you fail to streamline the process, you might never get that clean diaper on. It's all about eliminating the 'waste' in the process." He smiles...
...shop floors like Red River's where the changes are starting to show the most impressive results. Worn-out humvees used to be brought into a poorly lit, dirty and disorganized loading bay; now the vehicles move through a bright, gleaming shop floor--with American flags draped from the ceiling--in an assembly-line method, complete with a horn that blares every 23 min. to signal a move to a new station. Workers called waterspiders (named for the bugs that flit across the top of ponds) scurry back and forth to fetch tools and equipment for higher-skilled mechanics...
...military." Yet that break was bought and paid for, and money talks. The world is rid of an evil, warped mind, but let's tell it like it is. Wilda Fonseca Avon, Massachusetts, U.S. I found the cover image of al-Zarqawi's face covered by a red X extremely eye-catching but also troubling, as it reminded me of the May 7, 1945, issue of Time, which had an image of Adolf Hitler and an almost identical X. I wonder if it is legitimate to compare al-Zarqawi with Hitler, the latter having far exceeded al-Zarqawi...
...reported on Germany's willingness to create a new national image and present it to the world while the country is host of the World Cup. Public relations campaigns alone, however, cannot explain the flag mania that has gripped the country and provoked an unexpected outburst of black, red and gold on cars, faces, clothes, or draped from windows. That Germans seem to have discovered their flag and its stylish possibilities does not give cause for concern to our immediate neighbors, who were invaded during the course of a more toxic burst of nationalism. The current popularity of the national...