ITYM "autumnal equinox", it's on the 23rd this year.

Since the equinoxes align with the tilting of the axis, one would think that they, and the solstices, would fall in the exact center of their seasons. However, temperature lag throws this off. I.e. in California, I consider fall as September, October, and much of November, and the greatest impact it has tends to be on clothes. So, come Labor Day I shelve my summer clothes and switch to more autumn items.

You mean like taxi drivers?

The risk of "getting shot" as a police officer is not nearly as great as some people seem to think. Most officer fatalities come from car accidents. Most cabbie fatalities come from assaults.

Just to nitpick, your body can produce ATP from fatty acids instead of glucose. (Yes, glucose is still needed in small amounts, but it's not the One True Energy Source.)

Wow. As others have already addressed the incredible wrongness of the "no other country" bit, I'll take on the other half:

ATP can be generated from fatty acids. Eating sucrose, or glucose, is not a fundamental necessity of life. Your heart and skeletal muscles actually prefer fatty acids over glucose as a source for producing ATP.

Note that the model does show this; an initial 70% chance dropping to 26% as the mission changed.

It's not a new frontier in warfare style; insurgencies have existed back to Roman times and beyond. What is different are the methods used to combat them; for moral reasons we do not permit ourselves to use the traditional techniques. (Plus, its being a bloody mess of cronyism, profiteering, and sectarian violence hasn't helped matters any.)