Category: Security

A personal, private decision by the families of eight Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans may have contributed to a significant discovery in the understanding of brain trauma caused by exposure to bomb blasts. The brains of eight veterans, all exposed to blasts from high explosives in combat, have been found to have microscopic scarring in the star-shaped cells […]

RAFAEL DE LA Barrera reaches into a freezer and pulls out a plastic jug of rusty-red liquid. He wipes frost off the label: “Zika Virus – Puerto Rico strain. 24Mar16.” The liquid—stored at -80 degrees F to keep the malicious virus inert—is a solution isolated from monkey liver cells. If the US Army pulls off this […]

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The surges can shut down REM sleep (the deep sleep stage) and wake you up. When you haven’t slept well, you can get irritable and anxious. You then don’t sleep well the next night, and the cycle repeats itself.

It took time, but Hall has turned a corner in his life and can tolerate some outings. Now, he sees that doing what others want to do can be good for everyone.

“Now, they join me on the hill and stare out into nothing with me, and I do things they like to do,” he said.

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Big picture thinking can save your life and help you avoid reacting from tunnel vision, fear or your own anger.

“It helps mentally prepare them for what they may see on the battlefield,” she said.

That could save precious seconds of hesitation when time may be the dearest commodity.

Rock my Gucci, Louis, Prada, Suzuki, new Impala . . .

Save your smiles for personal time and not in the streets.

The US State Department has issued a travel alert for Europe, cautioning Americans that the influx of summer tourists and a series of high-profile events “will present greater targets for terrorists planning attacks in public locations”. “[W]e are alerting US citizens to the risk of potential terrorist attacks throughout Europe, targeting major events, tourist sites, restaurants, commercial centers […]

Just after dawn on a recent May morning, Ajax, a 2-year-old black Labrador retriever, eagerly worked his way through a sparsely furnished room sniffing for explosives. On his third try, he picked up a scent behind a piece of furniture near the front of the room. “Good dog, good dog,” said Andrew Baxter, his trainer, […]