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Female sailors visited the sick bay aboard one of the U.S. Navy's ships nearly 10 times more than their male counterparts, a "startling difference" the Navy had not expected to see, according to a new study. "With a female-to-male visit ratio of more than 9 to 1, the conversion of a ship with an all-male crew to 10 percent female would essentially double the clinical workload of the ship's medical department," says the article in the latest issue of Military Medicine, a respected professional journal for U.S. military physicians...
...study, conducted by Dr. G. Michael Summer, involved the USS Frank Cable, a repair vessel based in Guam. Summer, who was the medical officer aboard the ship from 1996 to 1998. His research found that over a six-month period during his service aboard the Cable, "female crew members accounted for 72 percent of the total visits [to the ship's sick bay] while constituting only 22 percent of the crew...
...most unusual lineup, including 24, a thriller whose events unfold in one day, in real-time episodes, over the season; Pasadena, a spooky-looking soap. I leave the party early, walking past the fighter jets on deck and thinking, If you set off a bomb on this ship...But then these are the upfronts. Plenty of bombs got launched this week. They just won't detonate until fall...
...former cruise-ship crooner will soon have plenty of chances to perform on the international stage. After opening at next month's nato summit in Brussels, he will warm up at the E.U summit in Göteborg, then step into the spotlight as host of July's G8 meeting in Genoa. Whatever happens, Il Cavaliere is unlikely to make as big a spectacle as he did when Italy hosted a U.N. conference on organized crime in Naples in 1994: with the world's most powerful leaders looking on, Berlusconi was served with papers putting him under formal investigation...
...chose him: This quiet Republican Senator jumped ship from the GOP this week to become an independent, causing perhaps the most significant mid-term shakeup in the history of Capitol Hill...