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Earlier this year, the Justice Department launched Law Net, a network of federal, state and local computer-crime experts designed to share expertise and technology. The department is seeking $37 million in new federal funding for initiatives that include training officers to combat Internet crime, developing 10 regional computer forensic labs, hiring experienced cyberinvestigators and prosecuting child pornographers. "We have a limited pool of expertise and resources that we need to expand," says John Bentivoglio, associate deputy attorney general...
...practitioner of Muay Thai kick-boxing and would like to challenge Adam M. Taub to mortal combat. Anytime he wants to enter my traditional underground octagonal arena and fight to the bitter death, he is more than welcome. Bring...
...turning point in Americana as far as manhood was concerned. According to Wolfe, this stomp across the sea initiated the widespread suppression of manliness. "We have the example of the elite young men dodging the draft," Wolfe observes. The efforts of America's top warriors went into avoiding combat rather than embracing it. These men and their apologists had to destroy the ideal of the male fighter to justify saving their own skin. Manliness never disappeared, but popular culture stopped celebrating it, says the author of A Man in Full. Warrior images--the army sergeant, the astronaut--became "feminized...
...past 15 months, McGrath and her crew have been gearing up for their gulf mission. They spent the first few months fixing ailing systems and upgrading others. Then they moved on to training exercises, preparing the ship's departments--combat systems, navigation, engineering, operations--to work under battle conditions. In one exercise, McGrath trains her binoculars on an object in the distance. As a nondescript oil tanker comes into view, a dozen sailors cram into a small boat that's lowered over the Jarrett's port side. Armed and nervous, they're preparing to climb aboard the tanker (actually...
Some of the skepticism originates right on board the Jarrett. "I've never worked for a woman before, so I'm not really sure what to expect in combat," says Personnelman First Class Arnell Ramos. "Being a majority-male organization," he says, "most of us would prefer to take orders from a male officer...