Better-fitting armor for female soldiers could also improve armor-fitting for all soldiers down the road.

MSN: US Army tests body armor for female soldiers

In a country undergoing major transformation, Clothilde Maita's job as one of Mozambique's three female train drivers seems only fitting.

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That led the Army's Program Executive Office (PEO) to begin making female body armor prototypes based on sizing and fitting tests.

MSN: US Army tests body armor for female soldiers

But the Army plans to change that poor-fitting scenario by field-testing new female body armor starting next summer.

MSN: US Army tests body armor for female soldiers

The county jail in downtown Los Angeles was in lockdown Friday as a precaution after a civilian female employee of the Twin Towers Correctional Facility spotted someone fitting Dorner's description, said Los Angelese County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore.

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Some smaller astronauts have had trouble fitting into those standard sizes, leading to charges that female astronauts don't have as many opportunities as men to do spacewalks.

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