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...transport planes of the U.S. Air Force's Air Mobility Command -- used to ship supplies and personnel to Bosnia and Somalia -- have been working almost nonstop since the Persian Gulf War, and now some of the giant C-141s and C-5s are showing worrisome wing cracks and other signs of fatigue. The Air Force is still struggling to catch up on maintenance that had been scheduled two years < ago but was interrupted by the Kuwait crisis. Said one C-141 pilot: "If we were a union, there's no way this carrier could continue flying...
Despite the death of six million Jews and millions of others, Glick said the world has not learned the lesson of the Holocaust, especially in light of recent events in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Somalia...
...pick up a newspaper today and if it didn't have the names of the places listed, you wouldn't be able to tell whether the atrocities taking place, whether in places like Bosnia or Somalia, were happening in 1942 or 1943 or 1992 or 1993," he said...
...bystander. He claimed self-defense, arguing that the constant threat of attack from brazen youths in the lawless Somali capital had unnerved him. A court-martial found Conde guilty of aggravated assault, stripped him of his rank and imposed a $1,706 fine. Twelve thousand U.S. servicemen remain in Somalia, though Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell, who visited them last week, says most should depart in the "not too distant future." For many, even the meanest streets of L.A. and Miami will seem a welcome change...
...social interactions was what really pushed the human brain toward superiority. Both dolphins and chimps have very complex interactions, but the intricacy of their social world pales beside the lattice of entanglements that characterized human society as early Homo sapiens banded together to gather food and defend themselves. In Somalia today, warring clans identify friend or foe by demanding that those accosted recite their ancestry going back many generations. It is easy to see how similar challenges in antiquity might have driven the development of brainpower...