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This week in American power projection: the map was wrong, the dorms were fine, and the travel card was for official purposes.

Story Roundup

Pentagon casualties, metric improvement, and Fat Leonard’s least dignified phase.

Situation Report

A State Department map that relocated most of Africa, one ambitious government travel card, and 5,200 medical students moved from dorms that definitely do not have mold.

Is this a leaked photo of apple's new military Smartphone, the iPhone PRC-5D?

CUPERTINO — Service members are abuzz today as a photo alleged to be an image of a military version of the popular Apple iPhone 5 was leaked on the Internet late Saturday.

The picture appears to show a ruggedized olive drab iPhone, with a 3-foot external tape antenna and what appears to be a 5590 battery. The image first appeared on the Harris Corporation website and though it was removed minutes later, copies quickly circulated on the web.

Apple has not commented on the photo or indicated any cooperation with Harris, but it has already created excitement among a market group that has long been ignored by the technology giant.

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