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JPSE's work could meet resistance, however. Three years ago, the Pentagon shut down its Office of Strategic Influence amid press reports that the unit, whose staff included psyops experts, was mulling a scheme to plant false news items with foreign journalists to sway opinion overseas. The allegations turned out to be unfounded. Senior Administration officials suspect they may have been leaked by military public-affairs officers jealous over turf. But Rumsfeld disbanded the organization anyway, complaining that the negative publicity compromised its effectiveness. The JPSE director insists that his group will not engage in deception. Says Treadwell...
...body is nearly shut down by this point, coasting, as racers say, on fumes. The energy deficit that the contestants have been running since the first day is now catching up with them, and their bodies have become catabolic (preferentially feeding off their own muscle and fat stores to fuel critical metabolic and cellular processes). The damage from repetitive impact on bones and muscles leaves its mark, especially in the legs and feet as capillaries break down. Rusch carries a second pair of shoes to accommodate feet that she knows from experience will balloon in size. In fact, after three...
...size, H. erectus would have to have shrunk to about 3% of its previous 60-kg size. That's about the size of a house cat's." Martin says one thing would persuade him?more physical evidence: "Show me eight more similar skulls from the site and I'll shut...
Oddly enough, he was right. The four would-be suicides are Martin, a disgraced talk-show host; JJ, a failed rock musician; Jess, a teenager who just got dumped by her boyfriend; and Maureen, a middle-aged shut-in with a severely disabled son. Momentarily distracted from self-destruction, the four get to comparing notes. (Maureen is immediately judged the top gun, misery-wise. "Oh, yeah," says Jess. "That's a no-brainer. Don't change your mind. You'd only regret it.") They decide to put off jumping and instead form a bickering, wary, ad hoc fellowship...
...provisions, a bottle of rum. It had been on our list of things to do before we graduated. We climbed spiral staircases; we poked into the back of stacks, tipping books from the shelves at random in the hope of opening doors to secret passages. We pretended to shut each other in the vault in the basement of the Kirkland library. We passed the rum in the second-floor stacks of the Eliot library. By the time we returned to Winthrop, tired and damp from the driving rain, I was both glad to have gone on the tour and glad...