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Sitting sentry in the center of town, the Marines are a ripe target for insurgent assaults. On April 24, mortars begin crashing down on the compound, and the shuddering impacts force the grunts to take cover in their rooftop bunkers. From an alley in the northeast, an insurgent fires a rocket-propelled grenade that slams a wall along the narrow mouth of a sandbagged gun pit. Shards of hot metal penetrate the opening, hitting Corporal Jonathan Wilson. Blood pours down his neck. "Corpsman up, corpsman up," he cries--asking for a medic to head to the roof. He runs downstairs...
...move back to base. "Be careful, we're gonna get hit," a Marine says as the men drop to the pavement. It's only 150 yards back to the Government Center, but every inch is hard won. Lance Corporal Phillip Tussey pauses on the edge of a small alley. With another Marine covering him, he makes a dash to cross the five yards of open ground. He doesn't get more than a couple of steps when a shot rings out. He's cut down mid-stride, hit in the thigh. The men around him open fire. Within seconds, insurgents...
America's energy infrastructure was running at full capacity before Katrina hit, and the fact that so much of that capacity is concentrated in Hurricane Alley means more pain at the pump--especially if another big storm hits or events in the Middle East disrupt supply. Katrina sidelined nine refineries that account for about 12% of U.S. capacity. By the end of last week, the storm had prevented production of 547 million bbl. of crude, a 25-day supply. Offshore oil production in the Gulf accounts for nearly 10% of U.S. daily consumption. Worse yet, natural-gas production also shut...
...stopped (a member of the city council was found hanged in his jail cell last year after being arrested for alleged extortion), but these days cranes rather than guns are a more apt symbol of Yekaterinburg. Office and apartment blocks are springing up. There's an Egyptian-themed bowling alley, a Scottish pub where the barmen wear kilts, a chain of eight fast-food restaurants called McPeak (which McDonald's considered buying), countless sushi bars and a huge German cash-and-carry hypermarket near the airport. "It used to be hard to get credit, but now banks are lining...
...prescription drugs to study, he doesn’t think his habit is any different from standard staples of late-night college cramming, like coffee, energy drinks, or bottles of Diet Coke. On the “black market” (more often a dorm room than a dark alley), Adderall and Ritalin run between 60 to 80 cents per milligram: a euphoric, amphetamine-fueled all-nighter can be purchased for as little as ten dollars...