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Body armor can be highly effective when worn properly; some analysts cite its use as standard equipment for U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan as reasons why troop fatalities in those conflicts have remained at historically low levels (even as a larger proportion of soldiers return home injured or maimed by wounds that previously would have killed them). But the same evolution that has likely saved thousands of lives is now raising the question of whether tighter regulation would save even more. When laws vary so widely from place to place and the civilian purchase of body armor becomes more...
...base-building allows this rally to continue for a while, but you're also saying that it could take the Dow back below 7000? What determines our fate? Whether we return to the lows will really depend on what happens to the financial-sector stocks. The government has provided many new programs to help fix our banking system, and how those programs work will determine whether the financial stocks have to go to new lows. The broader stock market has been building a technical base since October, but financial stocks are just starting to build a base. The risk...
...TROPHY WOMEN’S INTERSECTIONALCloudy and windy weather welcomed Harvard’s women’s squad to the Dellenbaugh Trophy Women’s Intersectional, where the Crimson took home seventh in a field of 16 teams.Harvard placed fifth in the A division, led by the return of junior Liz Powers, who was a workhorse over the weekend. Powers skippered the first eight races in the division, teaming up with freshman crew Alexandra Jumper for the first two contests and freshman crew Lilla Cosgrove for the other six races. Then, for the final six races...
...Chicago has formidable competition: the 2016 Games' final four candidates also include Madrid, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro. Considering that London is to host the 2012 Summer Games, a sense of continental equity could bolster the IOC's desire to return the event to the Americas. Rio would be the first South American city to host the Games, but there is grave concern about its ability to afford the significant infrastructure and security requirements. American Olympic officials are betting they can sell the IOC on Chicago's robust sports culture and the city's relatively harmonious ethnic and racial diversity...
...best Obama can hope for now is to get North Korea to return to the six-party talks (hosted by Beijing and including South Korea, Japan and Russia.) Washington has tried to signal Pyongyang in advance of the launch that it was still interested in talking, "because," says one Western diplomat, "the big picture remains the same, missile or no missile: getting them to abandon their nuclear weapons program...