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...Borough Park, Sammy spent eight years in religious schools before transferring to a public high school, where he majored "in sports," he says. After a stint studying automotive mechanics, Sammy joined the Marine Corps in 1968 just in time to ship out to Vietnam. He was badly wounded twice and spent the next year in a military hospital. But he "always knew [he] would go to live in Israel," he says. "It was part of the way I was brought up, taught that the No. 1 thing to be a good Jew was to live in Israel...
...Weighing more than a ton before fueling and more than twice that with its tanks full, MRO is one of the biggest ships ever hurled towards Mars. Part of the reason for the heft is the suite of instruments it carries, including the largest diameter telescopic camera ever sent to another planet; ground-penetrating radar able to look beneath the Martian surface; and a climate sounder, able to study the atmosphere in both visible and invisible spectra. The ship will also carry a new-generation navigational camera and communications system, to be field-tested for the first time...
...Although more than 200 New Zealanders lost their lives alongside their American allies in the nightmare of Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands, most Kiwi casualties were incurred far from home. Australia, in contrast, lost twice as many men in the Pacific as in Europe. During 1942 and 1943, the Imperial Japanese Army was moving south; in New Guinea, then an Australian territory, the Japanese might have expected an easy time against the relatively untrained and under-equipped Australian Militia - all that could be spared in the early days of the jungle campaign...
...face and recalls hearing a priest at the field hospital being told he'd probably die. "I thought, Pigs," he says. Even as the last rites were administered, he remembers telling himself through the pain, "This is not going to happen." He would be given the last rites twice more before his nine-month convalescence was over...
...England Journal of Medicine, researchers have for the first time put a number on how fit a female should be. In the study of more than 5,700 women over age 35, those who couldn't reach 85% of their expected exercise capacity in a treadmill test were twice as likely to die within eight years as their fitter peers. --By Sora Song