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...would still be no match for Nepal's 68,000 soldiers and 57,000 armed policemen?not in a conventional war. But in a campaign of hit-and-run, the army, stretched thin across the country, cedes the advantage. "The worrying thing for us is the high degree of skill and expertise (the Maoists) have in the art of explosives and ambushes," says Colonel Deepak Gurung. "We've been very surprised...
Some decades back, they made a conscious decision to put into the reserves--and almost only the reserves--certain skill sets so that if the country was ever tempted to do something militarily, they'd have to call the reserves, which means that it would have to be supported broadly. The problem with that is, it turns out that those skill sets are the ones we keep calling up, and they happen to be the ones that are badly needed in the world we're living in--civil affairs and the like, military police. All the services are currently coming...
...through all the backup systems and redundancies would be technically difficult. The terrorists would need an uncommonly detailed knowledge of U.S. facilities and sophisticated engineering expertise. "Utilities are vulnerable," says Gary Seifert of the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, "but not to systemwide outages, without a lot of skill...
Communism's contribution to Gliga's success was the party's inability to set up a violin factory in Bucharest. The capital's facility was closed, and Reghin became the only town in the country where violins were made. As a result, the experts are all still there. "Skilled workmanship imbues a violin with special characteristics," says Gliga. He believes the unique qualities of the local wood coupled with the skill of his work force mean Gliga instruments can successfully compete with those being made by long-established European companies...
...pneumonia; I sure hope I haven't got leukemia." If you don't share these fears with your doctor--and give him or her a chance to rule out worst-case scenarios--you may continue to have nagging doubts about both the diagnosis and your doctor's skill, says Cope...