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...mean the military needs engineers, electricians and computer technicians just to move. The diversity of adf missions - 1,600 troops are now serving abroad, from the Solomon Islands to Iraq - demands a whole new range of skills: troops must be ready not only to fight but to tend the sick, provide water and sanitation, and maintain law and order. But in an ageing workforce where the demand for skills outstrips supply, attracting and keeping people of the caliber the adf needs is hard - and getting harder. Over the next 20 years, says Babbage, the number of Australian men aged...
...last week analyzing 29 al-Qaeda documents. Among them is an employment contract that outlines for potential recruits the need for loyalty concerning "legitimate duties like jihad" and also details such matters as vacation time (five days a month for bachelors), salary (700 rupees extra for every wife)--even sick days. Is the document authentic? The Department of Defense and West Point have studied it carefully and believe it is. "It has the same characteristics that you'd expect to see on Jobs.com, says the center's director, Lieut. Colonel Joe Felter. "But their product is death and destruction...
...time Bush took questions from reporters the next day, White House aides say, he was basically sick of the topic. "The President really thought that this was fundamentally a judgment call about when you inform the press about a hunting accident," said an adviser who had talked to him. "While that's important in some ways when you're the Vice President, it's not as important as other matters that come before the President." As for critics on the Hill, a House Republican leadership aide said Cheney will remain the lawmakers' top back channel to Bush. "A hunting accident...
...weak pandemic there would be far fewer mechanical ventilators than the number of desperately ill flu patients who would need them to survive. "In this situation," they write, "triage of resources would be needed to offer 'the greatest good for the greatest number.'" That means that the very sick or the very old would probably be denied ventilator support?even removed from the machines?in favor of those more likely to survive. The assumption that most people in the developed world have about medical care?that everything possible will be done to help the sick?would be shattered. Doctors would...
...sick and tired of the notion that being a full-time parent means a workingwoman has given up on the feminist cause. Feminism was meant not to turn women into men but to give women the freedom to choose to work inside or outside the home. Having lived in Germany for seven years, I appreciate that it is truly difficult for German women to combine career and children, yet the endless comparison of earth mother vs. career mother is pointless and divisive. It is important to realize that nowadays educated, experienced women like me are not necessarily wasting our skills...