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1. Second Skin: What to wear to war
2. Boom Box: Automotive safety for people who drive on bombs
3. Fighting by Ear: The conundrum of military noise
4. Below the Belt: The cruelest shot of all
5. It Might Get Weird: A salute to genital transplants
6. Carnage Under Fire: How do combat medics cope?
7. Sweating Bullets: The war on heat
8. Leaky SEALs: Diarrhea as a threat to national security
9. The Maggot Paradox: Flies on the battlefield, for better and worse
10. What Doesn’t Kill You Will Make You Reek: A brief history of stink bombs
11. Old Chum: How to make and test a shark repellent
12. That Sinking Feeling: When things go wrong under the sea
13. Up and Under: A submarine tries to sleep
14. Feedback from the Fallen: How the dead help the living stay that way