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With budget cuts and an ever-expanding international role on the horizon, the military's job will only get tougher in the years to come. For our part, the least we can do is combat the misconceptions about the military that permeate our society and this campus. As one high ranking officer put it, "you don't have to love us, just respect what...
...known for upscale glamour; she earned her rep for her edge, her streetiness, her willingness to keep it real. On the cover photo of her 1992 debut album What's the 411?, her face is shrouded in shadow, gangsta-girl tough. Blige, back then, was all about combat boots and leather jackets; she could drink with the best of them, curse with the worst of them. But at a recent photo shoot in a studio in New York City, Blige traded haughtiness for haute couture--her hair was up, her makeup was Cover Girl flawless, and she was wearing...
Women--dressed in fatigues topped off with green scarves--not only drive tanks but also pilot attack helicopters and command mixed-sex battalions. "The women are for real," says Patrick Clawson, an Iran expert at the National Defense University in Washington. "They have a role in combat and a significant role in the organization." Men and women live separately, even when married to each other, in neat, clean, 20-bed dormitories. The men have learned to respect the women's military skills. Says Ali Andelavi, 25, a defector from the Revolutionary Guards who is now an engineer in the rebel...
There's a whole lot of shakin' going on inside Pentagon combat boots as President Clinton prepares to pick a new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The reason is that one of two top candidates is a tough-talking Leatherneck who thinks today's military are deployed too often for too long and are buying too many weapons at too high a price. The appointment of Marine General John Sheehan, commander of the U.S. Atlantic Command (his main rival is the current Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman, Air Force General Joseph Ralston), would make him the first Marine...
Dranoff, is also examining possible gene therapy treatments. He is using the technique to combat cancer, by enlisting the immune system in a full-blown barrage against every malignant cell in the body...