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TIME.com: Has there been a qualitative shift in military operations in Afghanistan in recent days, with reports of the heavy ground-attack AC-130 plane being used over Kandahar on Tuesday, for example...
...really. The first few days were focused on Taliban air defenses, and then on fixed targets such as ministries and logistics bases. Now they're looking for emerging targets, such as mass troop concentrations and armor. The AC-130 is often used to support ground troops, but it's also used solo. The U.S. is clearly moving from fixed to mobile tactical targets. The more you hit those mobile tactical targets, the more damage you do to the Taliban. And, of course, you have to be careful about hitting them too hard if you don't want to topple...
Aircraft --AC-130 Spectre and Spooky gunships are flying artillery platforms that give air cover to ground troops...
...cell phone, that nifty digital clamshell, has conquered campus. Where once you permanently stowed it in the AC-adapter cradle for the weekly dime-a-minute long-distance call to your parents, now you clip it to a belt, velcro it to a bookbag or carry it like a baton in the loneliest long-distance relay...
...would think it would be an enjoyable trip. Reclining seats, AC cranked up against the tropical climate and southeast Mexico's lush countryside to gaze at. These folks are going home. Trouble is, they don't want to. When the bus crosses the border and pulls up on the narrow, rain-soaked street in front of the immigration office in El Carmen Frontera, Guatemala, its passengers are in a foul mood. Home is El Salvador or Honduras or Nicaragua or Guatemala itself--all disaster plagued, crime-ridden, poorer by the minute and, as far as those...