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In the current issue of The New Yorker, Dan Baum explains how junior officers are helping to train each other on types of warfare that many top generals have not experienced themselves. We’ll speak to Major Peter Kilner about how soldiers are using his websites as a new way of dealing with the war in Iraq. Then, Miranda Seymour examines the fast-paced life of racecar driver Hellé Nice, from her early days as a dancer and nude model, to her fame on the racetrack and in the social circles of 1930s Europe, in Bugatti Queen. Jazz saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter joins his biographer Michelle Mercer for a look back at his life and career, as captured in the new book Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter. Finally, on our regular Friday feature, Please Explain, we look into game theory. What exactly is it, and how can we apply it to our everyday lives?