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...them not to smoke or drink," explains Charles Moskos, a military sociologist at Northwestern University. "You can't oversocialize them because that might even drive out the best pilots." Some Pentagon officials fret (anonymously, of course) that curbing Navy pilots' sexual feistiness will remove the edge they need for combat. Democrat Patricia Schroeder, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, responds, "It's possible to be brave and still repress your roaring testosterone...
...Navy's shipboard culture breeds sexism. Once a ship is afloat, the captain is the master of the universe. Women have little choice but to endure insults. It does not help that women are still barred from combat ships, and only 8,800 of the Navy's 58,000 women have landed spots on support ships. Many enlistees argue that the more women are integrated into the service, the less sexism there will be. "Working together is more important than sexual- harassment training," says Senior Chief Radioman Rusanne Anthony. The Navy's officers also need to set a better example...
...conspicuously, wants the European nations to take the lead. They have been just as conspicuously unwilling. Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney last week said American planes would supply air cover and support to an international expedition, but insisted that under no circumstances would American troops be sent into ground combat in what he calls "an internal civil...
...troops and up to a year of intense battle. "In the gulf war, the allies' high-tech stuff worked well," says Michael Dewar, deputy director of London's International Institute of Strategic Studies. But in mountain guerrilla warfare, "smart weapons are of little use. It would mean tough infantry combat from tree to tree...
Schizophrenia patients are being awakened from the long nightmare of madness by a remarkable drug. It is part of a new wave of medications that are enabling doctors to combat the most intractable mental illnesses and open a window on the mysterious world of human mood and emotion...