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...last Gulf War--but numbers don't tell the story of their new role. In a war this time around, women will be flying F-18s, launching Tomahawk missiles and serving in front-line intelligence units. You still will not find women in the infantry or driving a tank, but changes in technology and in the very nature of war have blurred the front lines and the definition of being "in combat...
...aircraft ready, whereas Laura's battalion is still assembling aircraft and preparing to move to a newly built camp closer to the action but farther away from hot meals and telephones. Signs that the battle is approaching multiply by the day: the electrified fence along the border has tank doorways cut through it. The U.N. border observers are pulling out, and civilian officials are pulling back. At the various base camps, soldiers can wait in line at the PX for two hours just to buy razor blades and batteries. Wild dogs roam the perimeter of the camps, keeping the rats...
Over lunch in decidedly uncountry Santa Monica, Calif., where they have lived part time while recording Long Way, the Dixie Chicks--in fancy jeans, tank tops and designer sunglasses--seem less like provocateurs than busy moms (they have seven kids in all, ages 1 to 5) amped up by a little free time. In conversation they are loud and unembarrassable, celebrating their lack of boundaries in that escalating, I-can-be-more-blunt-than-you way unique to sisters (which Maguire and Robison are) and women who have shared a tour-bus bathroom. They eagerly discuss the soullessness...
...array of topics.” The other five fellows are Peter Alagona, a doctoral candidate in history at the University of California-Los Angeles; Nicole S. Downey, who is finishing a doctorate in environmental science and engineering at the California Institute of Technology; Peter Huybers, a former Army tank platoon leader with a doctorate in climate physics and chemistry from MIT; Valeriy Ivanov, an MIT-trained hydrologist; and Roxanne Willis ’97, a doctoral candidate at Yale who specializes in environmental history and literature. —Staff writer Alexandra C. Bell can be reached at acbell@fas.harvard.edu
...covered the 1988 and 1996 presidential campaigns. As a senior editor for the magazine, he oversaw the Nation and Arts sections and was editor of Time.com, the magazine's website. He left TIME in 2004 to head up the National Constitution Center, a museum, education center and think tank on Independence Mall in Philadelphia dedicated to teaching the importance of the Constitution and civic engagement...