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Suddenly, a northern ridge on the Pakistani side erupts in gunfire. Then from the south, inexplicably, a Pakistani militia unit occupying a border outpost on the hillside unleashes five rocket-propelled grenades at Grenz and his men. The Pakistanis are supposed to be helping the Americans. It's something the Americans will puzzle over later, when the fighting stops. "There were about 20 muzzle fires on the northern ridge," Captain Craig Mullaney later recalls. One was a sniper, who, from a distance of 600 yds., hits Private First Class Evan O'Neill, 19, twice precisely below his flak jacket, shearing...
That's exactly what the employees at iAnywhere Solutions, a unit of Sybase headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, are trying to figure out. About 18 months ago the company, which makes software for handheld devices, plunged headlong into the wireless world by turning its entire campus into a giant wi-fi hot spot. Employees--mostly in marketing and product development--with wi-fi--enabled laptops (about half the 250 full-time staff at headquarters) can access the Web at lightning speed from anywhere in the building, no wires necessary...
...outworked, collectively, as a five-man unit by their four-man unit—consistently,” Crimson assistant captain Tyler Kolarik said. “There were definitely some lost opportunities...
That isn’t to say those players aren’t capable, though. Stephanie Cochran, who assumes regular duties between the pipes this year, held Harvard to just two goals in the ECAC finals and the defense returns as a mostly intact unit, now one year older and wiser...
From rookies to veterans to coaches, the players already feel that they are gelling together as unit after only a week of practice...