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...force must transcend traditional military culture as well. The State Department would have to be directly involved in the training, which would include some basic diplomatic skills--knowledge of Islamic culture and mores, familiarity with the Koran and language proficiency. The X-Peacekeepers would also have to train for basic policing--how to talk to people, become part of the community and solicit information. An excellent model exists in the 24-week residential training devised for the Police Corps, an elite national-service program that transforms college students into police officers. In fact, Police Corps and special-forces training...
...KM/H Speed reached by an experimental Japanese maglev train, which floats above its track on a magnetic field, setting a new world record...
...need to know a bogie from a driving wheel to feel the romantic tug of the age of steam-train travel. A day spent aboard England's Cathedrals Express, chuffing from London to spired cities like Salisbury, Canterbury or Bath and back, is a mighty whiff of postwar nostalgia-and a glimpse into the obsessive otherworld of the trainspotters, who track locomotives the way some folks watch birds...
...tiny Steam Dreams company with the aid of volunteers who maintain vintage locomotives like the 1945-built Bodmin. Its 1960s cars are wood-paneled, the seats broad. Whether you're riding Standard (from ¤57), First (¤100) or Dining class (¤145), there's no doubting the train's charm: heads turn, people wave, spotters jot numbers and take snaps. Diners get bubbly and a full English brunch on the way out, and a more nouvelle three courses coming home. Steam Dreams' 2003 timetable closes with a series of eight Christmas Carol Specials through December, which include concerts...
...Hagamen, a freshman last year, is taking this year off to train with the U.S. Fencing Squad as an Olympic hopeful. Hagamen’s departure leaves Harvard with a void to fill...