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...grounds of Amman's Royal Police Academy, where the men are training, are landscaped with hollyhocks and palm trees. And there is no target practice. "We don't know what weapons we'll have in Jericho," says Lieut. Colonel Mohamed Youssef Al Sadi, commander of a 20-man unit drawn from the Badr Brigade, which is expected to patrol Jericho. "We have forgotten our Kalashnikovs." They have been trained, however, to handle American M-16s. Whether the Israelis will allow the men of the P.L.O. to carry them is still undecided...
...part of the police- application process, hotheaded ideologues are screened out. By design, the trainees in this unit are longtime residents of Jordan who have wives and children but are in their late 20s and early 30s, too young to have fought in the Arab-Israeli wars. ("It is impossible that they are on any Israeli blacklist," says an instructor.) "We're going to Jericho as policemen, not as soldiers," Al Sadi reminds his men. "Being a policeman is much harder. The policeman has to help everyone -- no matter what his nationality -- and forget about his own identity and feelings...
Most of all, the members of the Badr Brigade -- they have kept their unit's name -- are eager to project a new image of Palestinians. Not hijackers. Not dust-caked guerrillas staging night raids across the Israeli border. Just ordinary cops with polished boots and well-pressed uniforms, assisting in the splendidly routine business of maintaining law and order among their own people...
Neonatal care for infants weighing less than 1.5 lbs. can run to $1 million per child if they spend several months in an intensive-care unit. Moreover, very few live long enough to leave the hospital, and half of those who do are debilitated. Such low-weight babies, who make up only 3% of the 300,000 preemies born each year, would seem to be a bad cost-benefit risk. But Alan Fleischman, director of neonatology at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York, notes that 20 years ago, only 10% of infants born weighing under...
While the Lafayette offensive unit has been solid this season, the team's strongest facet has been its defense. The Leopards have held their opponents to only 827 yards of total on the year (275.7 yards per game), including 267 yards rushing (89.0 per game) and 560 yards passing (186.7 yards per game...