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...longer tours are accompanied by a guaranteed year at home for soldiers between deployments, a move hailed by many as beneficial for troop morale and important for staving off burnout. But that year includes a rigorous schedule of month-long stints at the National Training Centers and live-fire field exercises that can last days at a time. Even if soldiers are back in the U.S. for a year, little more than half of that time is spent with family, and the next deployment always looms large. "We go home and immediately start preparing for the next deployment," says Polk...
...first opera when she was three. By the age of ten, she was singing in the Metropolitan Opera House every night as part of the Metropolitan Children’s Chorus. As a senior in high school, she and her classmates were invited to do a month-long run of the “Laramie Project” in London.Even with such a background, Birnbaum credits Harvard’s seemingly limited theater program for her development into Harvard stage royalty. “Seeing Harvard from the outside, you don’t really see the arts, which...
...year hiatus, Cheng-san “Louie” Chen plans to return to the Square and take back control over Louie’s Superette, the renowned convenience store near Mather House that he owned for 18 years. Chen’s return comes after a month-long legal battle with the current manager of the store, Pritam “Tony” S. Saini, whom Chen alleged had failed to pay rent and hadn’t met Chen’s standards for running the store. “I would love to bring...
...forms. At Embraer, the world's fourth largest commercial aircraft manufacturer and the pride of Brazil's export industry, directors realized that the company faced a shortage of aerospace engineers because the advanced training they needed wasn't available in Brazil. In 2000 the company set up an 18-month-long postgraduate course to train its engineers in aerodynamics and flight mechanics. So far, nearly 800 people have taken the course. "We create from inside, and we are now delivering engineers with a specialist aerospace background," says Peter Clignett, a Dutch lecturer in Embraer's program. "The better the engineers...
...elaborate network of bunkers and fortified firing positions built over a six-year period in sealed-off valleys and hilltops throughout south Lebanon was key to Hizballah's ability to survive Israel's onslaught during last summer's month-long war. Israeli soldiers spoke of Hizballah fighters bursting out of the ground to loose off a rocket-propelled grenade before disappearing into the earth again. Israeli air crews hunted, often in vain, for the sources of Katyusha rocket fire, sometimes emanating from within a few hundred yards of the border. One bunker complex discovered and dynamited by Israeli troops...