Word: units
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...experts, in fact--including the world's leading authority on ants, Baird Professor of Science E.O. Wilson. Wilson recently received his second Pulitzer Prize for The Ants, a gigantic volume that served as a basis for the computer game SimAnt. His popular Core course, "Evolutionary Biology," contains a large unit on ant social behavior...
...Arizona, but the introductory curriculum he would have taken was less suited to a high-level strategic thinker than to that person's secretary. Once back in Michigan, as an E-5 specialist -- the equivalent of a sergeant -- with a G-2, or security, section of a peacetime Reserve unit, there would have been little call for the arcane arts he had learned. A soldier in the current equivalent of his unit assesses Koernke's position as that of "a glorified clerk," concerned mostly with processing security clearances...
...hundred artillery pieces and mortars the U.N. had placed under guard at collection points around Sarajevo. What came as a surprise last week was that Bosnian government forces joined so eagerly in the abuse of UNPROFOR. They shelled and blockaded Visoko, where Canadians were posted, and disarmed a Russian unit at a U.N. observation post in the suburb of Mojmilo, south of the capital. At the same time, government troops emulated the Serbs by retrieving 42 mortars and artillery pieces from a U.N. weapons-collection station...
...platoon of 60 men, even of famously tough Foreign Legionnaires, will hardly make a difference in bloody Bosnia. Still, their arrival was apparently meant to send the Serbs some signals. They were the first new unit into the field since the Serbs rounded up more than 370 U.N. troops and observers as hostages three weeks...
...information was relayed to an intelligence-gathering AWACS circling high above, and then to Admiral Smith in London. He contacted Colonel Martin Berndt, commander of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit on the Kearsarge, a helicopter carrier sailing in the Adriatic. "What do you think?" asked the admiral. "I think we can get him," replied Berndt. Smith immediately gave the go-ahead, and Berndt roused 51 Marines-including 10 helicopter crewmembers-sleeping below decks; it was shortly after 3 a.m. At about the same time, Lake approached the President back in Washington, where it was around 9:30 p.m. "It looks...