The Army Nurse Corps and the Navy Nurse Corps remained active after the war. Injured soldiers still needed care, so the demand for nurses continued. Many women serving in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) remained uniformed...

/weiv/ n. An oscillation propagated through a medium in such a way that energy is periodically interchanged between two kinds of disturbance. In the case of a sound wave travelling through air, the disturbance takes the form of alternating compressions...

The WAVES were a World War II-era division of the U.S. Navy that consisted entirely of women. The name of this group is an acronym for "Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service" (as well as an allusion to ocean waves); the word "emergency" implied...

BAND ON THE STREET It's frustrating, but don't call the seconds a side project NO NO NO WAVE The seconds just can't make time for each other. Drummer Brian Chase juggles pop superstardom in the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and playing with...

JIM BECKERMAN, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 07-03-2001 A WAVE -- OF GOOD VIBRATIONS SENT BRIAN'S WAY By JIM BECKERMAN, Staff Writer Date: 07-03-2001, Tuesday Section: LIFESTYLE / ENTERTAINMENT Edition: All Editions -- Two Star B, Two Star P, One Star...

A 24-year-old California surfer topped a daredevil contest Saturday that had competitors riding waves more than four stories tall.Greg Long of San Clemente was among two dozen elite surfers who took part in the Mavericks Surf Contest — considered the Super Bowl of big-wave competitions...

The boogie boarders at Schlitterbahn Waterpark know that they have a really cool summer job.Five nights a week, for a half-hour just past sunset, the park pays a team of 10- to 19-year-olds to perform loosely choreographed tricks on the park's Boogie Bahn, a fast-flowing...