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U.S. To help boost enlistments, Defense Secretary Bill Cohen is asking celebrities to do military-recruiting ads. The Navy is airing Spike Lee-directed commercials, and James Brolin is narrating a video for the Marine Reserve.

SPAIN To help boost enlistments, the military is lowering the IQ requirement from 90 to 70, the minimum for normal behavior according to psychologists. Applicants will also no longer need to have finished high school.

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