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...Combat snobbery" was a term used to define the British attitude; it also applied to America's new German allies when the Federal Republic joined NATO in 1955. The German veterans who had fought in the great tank battles against the Russians on the eastern front made it plain that they doubted the ability of America's postwar army to check a Soviet offensive if the cold war ever became hot. The Germans, like the British before them, pointed to American reliance on firepower and air cover, an expectation of overgenerous supply of materials, as reasons to question...
...vehicles cross Imam Street and move toward the mosque. TIME senior correspondent Michael Weisskopf glances up at the mosque's clock tower, damaged by U.S. tank shells during a fierce battle in April. As he does, he hears a clunk and sees that an oval-shaped object has landed on the seat beside him. For a split second he thinks it's a rock, then he realizes it isn't. He reaches to throw it out. Suddenly there is a flash. The object explodes in Weisskopf's hand...
...Outside Wazir's house, nine children were shooting marbles in the dirt. Around 10:30 a.m., villagers saw the Warthog circle once over the house, vanish behind a mountain and come roaring back, firing what villagers said were 35 explosive rounds. Each was powerful enough to destroy a tank. The children were in the pilot's field of attack. There was little left of them except the marbles, a few shredded prayer caps and small pools of blood...
Recently, Dowling obtained a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) grant to study place-conditioning in zebrafish with relation to addiction to cocaine. The experiment starts with placing the zebrafish for a day in a normal tank, followed by a day in a tank with a cocaine-soaked piece of filter paper dangling at one end—a “zebrafish crackhouse,” the scientist quips. The third day, Dowling found that most fish would nearly immediately return to the end of the tank which previously housed the cocaine-soaked paper...
...some of the fish seemed to not respond appropriately and didn’t return to this end of the tank. Dowling says he wondered whether the fish just didn’t remember the cocaine correctly. He theorized that the defect might be a result of mutations in genes affecting signaling between the retina and the brain...