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...special-forces circles they call Captain Mark's 12-man team a force multiplier. Military commanders use terms like quick-reaction force or special ops when discussing his work, but mostly they convey its nature with knowing looks. Captain Mark, a pseudonym, simply says he has a "cool-guy job." However you describe him, you have only to study Captain Mark's travels in the past few years--Haiti, Georgia, Afghanistan--to work out what the bearded 33-year-old does. His 5th Special Forces Group "A team" of language specialists, weapons trainers, logistics men, forward bomb spotters...
Scientists have been struggling to create an AIDS vaccine since the mid-1980s, so you would think the failure of the most advanced trial of such an inoculation would leave them seriously depressed. But that wasn't the reaction last week when researchers from VaxGen, a California company, announced that its HIV vaccine was largely ineffective...
...depict DNA's outward expression in the human form. "Is that Adam and Eve on the cover?" asked a Minnesotan. "Then those belly buttons have got to go." An "appalled" Missouri man agreed that the image showed too much; he declared it "pornographic." But in anticipation of such a reaction, a reader in El Salvador counseled, "To all those who would complain: the human body is beautiful and nothing to be ashamed of. Lighten...
...It’s not just speed, but reaction time that we’ve been working on,” Miller said. “We’ve also been practicing not just watching the goal go in the net but swimming back to our end right away...
...reaction of Ramchandra's wife when he confesses his infidelity. Inexplicably, Goma decides that Malati will move in with the family and into Ramchandra's bed; Goma will sleep with the children. Why? I have no idea. Upadhyay struggles with his characterization of Goma, sometimes a doormat, sometimes Machiavellian, never quite convincing. Also problematic are Upadhyay's efforts to weave Kathmandu's political turmoil (the novel takes place during the pro-democracy riots of 1990) into a personal story. The complex sleeping arrangements are distracting enough, and the collapse of the state pales next to the disintegration of this jigsaw...