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...Defense planning," says former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, "is an art, not a science." TIME's blueprint for peacetime armed forces is certainly not the only feasible plan, but it is based on the most rational and pragmatic method for designing a post-cold war military: 1) devise a strategy, 2) decide the kinds and numbers of forces needed to carry it out, and 3) determine the cost...
Immunocontraception has already been field-tested successfully with wild horses on Assateague Island, off Maryland. If this and other planned tests work equally well, the vaccine could become the method of choice for controlling booming deer populations. It could even, in theory, be used as a one-shot, long-lasting human contraceptive as well...
This is not a conflict in which civilian casualties are a secondary consequence of regular warfare: civilians are prime targets, and every method to terrorize, displace or, if need be, kill them is part of the arsenals on all sides. The fundamental objective of the war is Serbian "ethnic cleansing" -- practiced by ethnic irregulars armed and supported by the Serbian government of Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade -- of large swaths of Bosnian territory to expel Muslims and Croats so that Serbs may move in. Croats under the harshly nationalist leadership of President Franjo Tudjman have joined in to grab their share...
...while Harvard has stopped killing rates andmice in Cambridge by cervical dislocation, itcontinues to use the method in some facilities atthe Harvard Medical Area. The medical area, homeof Harvard Medical School, the School of PublicHealth, the Dental School and a number of Harvardteaching hospitals, is located in Boston--outsideWiles's jurisdiction...
Other times, though, he is darkly sober as hetouches the wooden mouse on his desk and recallswitnessing the cervical dislocation method...