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...CHARGED. Chief Warrant Officers JEFFERSON WILLIAMS and LEWIS WELSHOFER JR., Sergeant First Class WILLIAM SOMMER and Specialist JERRY LOPER; with "murder and dereliction of duty," according to a U.S. Army spokesperson, in the death of Iraqi Major General Abed Hamed Mowhoush; in Fort Carson, Colorado. Military prosecutors claim the four soldiers suffocated Mowhoush during an interrogation in Qaim, Iraq, in November 2003, when they allegedly trapped him inside a zipped sleeping bag, rolled him around and sat on his chest. The soldiers face a possible life sentence...
There is also a new wave of gadgets that help keep workers on task. CubeDoors--portable, retractable, mesh-weave panels from CubeSmart in Fort Worth, Texas--block entry into cubicles, effectively saying "Busy" to would-be interlopers. In 2003 the company sold 1,500 "doors," which cost $30 each. Sales are up 300% this year. New on the market last year: the Quiet Technology sound-masking system from office-furniture maker Herman Miller. Designed for open-layout work environments, the system renders speech beyond a 12-ft. to 16-ft. radius unintelligible with "pink noise" technology embedded in the furniture...
...HOUR AT ABOUT 2 P.M. LAST Friday, the main attraction at Six Flags New Jersey was not the Nitro, the "tallest and fastest roller coaster in the East," or the Superman Ultimate Flight ride. Within sight of the front gate, not far from the faux Revolutionary battlements of Fort Independence, a succession of blue tarps had been stretched. Prostrated on them, facing Mecca (and, unintentionally, the Cannonball Lemonade Stand) were hundreds of men, heads to the ground in sajda, Islamic prayer's gesture of submission to Allah. As hundreds more entered the park and took note, many set up individual...
Born in 1931 or 1932, the Bronx Boys attended P.S. 80, after which most went to the Bronx's DeWitt Clinton High School and local colleges. Many entered the Army at the same time and were in basic training together at Fort Dix, N.J. "We still hug when we see each other, and I'm sure people look at us and say, 'What are those old guys doing?'" says Joe Greenberg, a retired engineer in Rockville, Md. "Joey? Howie? Georgie? What kind of names are these? We were a bunch of buddies, and as we got older, we stayed...