It takes only a brief glimpse at a 1941 map of the Pacific to see why Wake Island was considered to be of such strategic value to the United States and why it was such an early target in Japan's program of conquest. As the war planners on both sides saw the situation in the late 1930s, possession of Wake was vital to the defense of their territory.

When you become a trainer, be the best trainer a greenie ever had.

Dunne's account of the eight-year creation of a financially successful film, which was essentially a mindless star-vehicle, reveals a philistinism in Hollywood that almost defies satire.

Compounds that were negatively correlated with fatty acid odor were mevalolactone, quinic acid, 2-oxoglutaric acid, N,N-dimethylhistidine, and pyruvic acid (Table 3 ).