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...implicitly pro-Nazi or anti-Nazi, Ryan admitted, is that under Nazism no explicit literary dissent in Germany was possible. Authors instead could either physically exile themselves or undergo “inner emigration,” a retreat into one’s own artistic world to combat the horrors of the world without. Modern readers must judge the validity of many authors’ post-war claims that their work under Hitler contained subtexts of anti-Nazi dissent, even when the texts themselves suggest otherwise...
...million will fund research in two areas—developing stem cell therapies to combat genetic diseases, and developing surgical techniques for delivering those therapies to human bodies, according to Paul F. Levy, president and CEO of Beth Israel...
Many of these men and women owe their lives to the Critical Care Air Transport Teams (CCATs), the flying intensive-care units that treat the troops as they are lifted by helicopter within minutes from the kill zone to the combat hospital. From there they are flown 6 1/2 hours to the military's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, which has evolved from a small backwater military hospital into a top-line trauma center...
...handle the military's worst burn cases but is now taking the overflow amputees from Walter Reed. TIME correspondents Amanda Bower and Cathy Booth Thomas and photographer James Nachtwey spent time with the doctors and patients who together are writing the next chapter of their lives--and of combat medicine...
...managed by Boeing, that would enable computer-equipped soldiers on the ground to see and fight the enemy with satellites, unmanned vehicles and futuristic weapons. Senator John McCain of Arizona will hold hearings this week to determine whether the Pentagon was justified in setting the contract, known as Future Combat Systems, outside the normal procurement process. "The type of contracting leaves the government extremely vulnerable because there is no transparency or taxpayer protection," says Eric Miller, the senior defense analyst at the Project on Government Oversight, a Washington watchdog group. "It is ripe for abuse and often misused." A Pentagon...