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...transmission, the principal barrier to a pandemic. The falling death rate could mean that this process of adaptation is accelerating. "In gaining the ability to go from one person to another, a virus may well lose its virulence," says Dr. Jeremy Farrar, director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City. The 1918 Spanish flu, for example, the worst pandemic in history, had a fatality rate of 2.5%. But it was extremely contagious, infecting hundreds of millions...
...then she fell in love--with the sky. After three years of summer war games, she got to spend time with an active-duty unit in Washington, flying Blackhawk helicopters--in her case, the deluxe, leather-seated, air-conditioned kind used to ferry VIPs around. She saw in the members of the 12th Aviation Battalion a value system that more closely mirrored her own. "Those guys are deadly serious about the important things. They really look after the safety of their crew and their aircraft," she says. "But they also know what's not important, and I think in aviation...
...been brought to West Point to teach Fundamentals of Tactics. His easy ferocity inspires wide measures of terror and devotion among cadets. "I just hate that guy sometimes," says one, "but I would feel safest going into combat with him over my other instructors, definitely." To Zielinski, whose unit at Air Assault School had to withstand McKinney's withering inspection, the weakest instructors are the ones who act like your buddy. "When I see someone being tough with me, like Captain McKinney," he says, "I think it's a good thing. You only learn more that...
When he graduated in 1993, Amerine was commissioned a lieutenant in what had essentially become the world's most muscular police department. His first taste of combat, during a Cuban-refugee riot in Panama in which every member of his unit was wounded, was not even labeled combat. None of his men got Purple Hearts. He was in a hotel in Kazakhstan when word came of the 9/11 attacks. Within weeks his team of 12 special-forces soldiers was dropped behind Taliban lines with little more than weapons, cash and a mission to start a Pashtun insurgency. In one fire...
...fact, have lives. Drag pictures and movies into the LifeDrive Manager software, and it converts them to compatible formats, optimized to look good on the 320x480-pixel color screen. You can also load your MP3s using Windows Media Player or RealNetworks' Rhapsody software. We filled a test unit with 350 songs, more than 400 pictures and the entire feature film Garden State, and we still had more than 1 GB of space left. --By Wilson Rothman