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...Boston City Councillor Charles H. “Chuck” Turner ’62 said at the meeting that he lacked confidence in BU’s safety procedures. Turner referred to a 2004 incident in which three BU researchers fell ill after unknowingly handling a contaminated strain of the bacteria tularemia...
...early May 2005, and alarm bells in Washington's media echo chamber were ringing. A leaked Pentagon report had warned that the strain of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars could crimp the Defense Department's ability to respond quickly to other conflicts, and pundits were fretting that China and North Korea could exploit the vulnerability. But flying through Asia in his Air Force Boeing 737, Admiral William Fallon, the man who had taken over the U.S. Pacific Command just two months earlier, wasn't ruffled. His command - with 300,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines - still outclassed the force Beijing...
...into battle and more on how those men will be cared for once they return home. Presented by Kennedy School of Government lecturer Linda J. Bilmes ’80 at the annual meeting of the Allied Social Sciences Association in Chicago, the study explored the economic and logistical strain imposed upon the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) by the volume of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan seeking medical care, disability benefits, or both. According to Bilmes, the nation’s costs of fulfilling its obligations to these veterans could run between 300 and 700 billion dollars over...
...sounds crazy. The military is cracking from wartime strain. Isolationism is on the rise. Americans don't want to sustain one pre-emptive war, let alone start others...
...grant you, the popular media sometimes strain credulity when they portray microscopic life in terms we can understand. An item on eMaxHealth.com this week began as follows: "Like shoppers in search of the perfect pair of jeans, the body's special immune system cells apparently have assistants that help them rapidly 'try on' different pieces of a microbe to find one piece that's shaped just right to fit their cellular skins...