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...strong active-duty force--made himself scarce as these troubling indicators surfaced. The Defense chief has argued that retooling the Army--turning cooks and accountants into trigger pullers and hiring contractors to perform such civilian tasks, among other steps--should generate efficiencies that would ease the strain on the Army without having to boost its size. But other Pentagon officials doubt that such measures will suffice. "We're growing increasingly concerned about the health of the force," an Army personnel officer says. "These deployments are really beginning to take a toll...
...Army's wheels are going to come off in the next 24 months," Barry McCaffrey, a retired four-star Army general, said last week. "The data are now beginning to come in to support that." McCaffrey said the service needs to add 80,000 troops to ease the strain brought on by the Iraq war. "We are in a period of considerable strategic peril," he said. "And it's because Rumsfeld has dug in his heels and said, 'I cannot retreat from my position...
...drones on in a 1,575-word account of a local murder trial. Hard to find anything less personal than that, yet it is precisely this kind of impersonal recounting of some irrelevant bit of news that is often resorted to by distraught lovers who are contending with some strain and who thus choose to recount details from a neutral territory as they wait out a storm that swirls about them." Absent anything more incriminating, however, such as accounts by someone who saw the two having sex or expressions of carnal desire from Lincoln or Speed, it's hard...
...fact, In Good Company places a steady strain on our credulity. Why, for example, is Ann (Marg Helgenberger), Dan's wife and the mother of two teenage daughters, suddenly and belatedly pregnant--except as a device to put more pressure on Dan? Why do Carter and one of those daughters, Alex (Scarlett Johansson), fall for each other--except as a way of ratcheting up the tension between Dan and his young boss? For that matter, why is Globecom firing ad salesmen at the very moment it is demanding a 20% rise in ad revenue...
...Kyocera of Japan and Boker of Germany with zirconium oxide, which is second in hardness only to diamond. They stay sharp 10 times as long as steel and don't react with food or affect its smell or taste. They are also lightweight, making repetitive chopping less of a strain. The hardness of the blades makes them less flexible, however, and they should not be used for cutting that requires maneuverability, such as carving. And there's not yet a reliable method for home sharpening, so you might have to return the knife to the manufacturer when the edge finally...