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...mission there. But I do not support the use of reservists, and I object to the impact it has had on small towns. They are losing fire fighters and police who are members of the Guard and the Reserve because the Pentagon wants to save a buck. Craig T. Trebilcock Lieut. Colonel, U.S. Army Reserve York, Pennsylvania...
...mission there. But I do not support the use of reservists, and I object to the impact it has had on small towns. They are losing fire fighters and police who are members of the Guard and the Reserve because the Pentagon wants to save a buck. Craig T. Trebilcock Lieut. Colonel, U.S. Army Reserve York, Pennsylvania, U.S. The U.S. does not have a troop shortage; it has misdeployed the troops. The thousands of active-duty U.S. service members sitting on their duffs in Europe and Japan far exceed any alleged shortage in Iraq and Afghanistan. If the slow-moving...
...CRAIG T. TREBILCOCK...
...Heather Trebilcock has never smoked a cigarette. So she certainly never thought she would be putting nicotine directly into her blood--or that she would be grateful for its presence. But when Trebilcock developed severe abdominal cramps and diarrhea two years ago and starting losing weight--dropping 20 lbs. in three weeks--she knew she had to do something. Her doctor in Des Moines, Iowa, thought she might have colitis, a painful inflammation of part of the large intestine. In her case, however, standard treatments for the disease didn't work , and her condition deteriorated...
Desperate for relief, and facing the possibility of radical surgery, Trebilcock went to the Mayo Clinic, where Dr. William Sandborn offered an unusual treatment. He gave the 23-year-old college student a nicotine patch as part of a study to determine its effect on colitis. Normally prescribed to help smokers kick the habit, these patches release a predetermined amount of nicotine through the skin into the bloodstream, where it eases the craving for cigarettes. Physicians have known for some time, however, that nicotine also seems to quiet the symptoms of colitis. So, although the Food and Drug Administration...