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...Talraas, a new gunner in the Army's 82nd Airborne, had fired his first shot in combat a day earlier. After what felt like endless weeks waiting in a secure area at the Kuwait City International Airport, Talraas's company flew into Iraq on an HC-130 and landed at the newly captured airbase near Nasiriyah, before heading northwest on the road to Baghdad...
...When the DUSTOFFS touched down at the Tallil Army Combat Hospital 20 minutes later, the surgery ward was prepped and ready. The wounded paratrooper was wheeled straight onto the operating table, and the surgeons were in and out in an hour and a half...
...cinematic theme, an irrational and persistent stigma about receiving treatment remains among Harvard students. Important to the administration’s response will be both an effort to evaluate this stigma’s role in the effective treatment of student depression and an investment in finding ways to combat it. Education will no doubt play a role in obliterating this stigma...
...Kalashnikov, 83, the inventor of the AK-47 or Kalashnikov rifle, recently announced a deal with a German manufacturer to begin producing umbrellas under the Kalashnikov brand name as a way of distancing his name from his more infamous eponymous invention. Time since the AK-47 first debuted in combat...
...media’s obsession with reporting the minute-to-minute vagaries of combat, has diverted resources away from reporting on the broader, systemic and far more important issues involved. The critical issue that will redefine the Middle East is what will happen to Iraq once Saddam Hussein is removed from power. The debate raging in both European capitals and the hallowed halls of the United Nations Security Council is over the role that various world powers, most specifically the United States and the U.N., will play in the post-war reconstruction. Unfortunately, however, because its sex appeal ranks markedly...