Word: apartness
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...Bradley fighting vehicles got stuck in the mud, dozens of irregulars, armed with a machine gun, tow missiles and a chain-firing cannon, tried to crawl up to them. Another group attempted to paddle across the Euphrates river, shooting RPGs as they approached. Their five boats were blown apart on the water. All of these attacks ended similarly. "It's not a fair fight," says Major Kevin Dunlop. "Trucks with machine guns against tanks and Bradleys can only have one outcome. We are slaughtering them...
There may be new surprises ahead, apart from the expected challenges of taking Baghdad. Washington has pointed to the capture of two airfields in western Iraq as a blow to Saddam's ability to menace Israel with Scud missiles, as he did in the 1991 war. But the U.S. has what it considers credible intelligence that some Scuds have eluded detection in western Iraq, within striking distance of Israel. "We're not out of the woods yet," a senior U.S. intelligence official tells TIME. Saddam may have "a Scud or two that he's saving for the right moment...
...doses of Oprah-like human-interest drama, the (slightly) wounded saying "Hi, Mom" and tearful families waiting for word. There are photographs of rubble and of bloodstains that could easily be mistaken for spilled wine. But there is none of the horror, none of the unimaginable sights--bodies torn apart, limbs flying--that cause combat veterans to go mute when asked about their experiences. The coverage of this war is as close to the truth of this war as reality TV is to real life. At a moment like this, the media should be an irritant--shocking us, shaking...
...Apart from Iraq, Earthviewer can show Baghdad-level detail for most major U.S. and European cities. For now, the rest of the globe is a little more fuzzy. Still, it's pretty cool to fly from a street in San Diego to Basra in 10 seconds. Even the Air Force can't do that. --By Chris Taylor
...mission of the series is to pull apart the contradictions of globalism and to discover and elevate what people have in common...