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...steel, a cube-and-canister form answering to the legacy of the old mills and silos that once occupied - some still do - the industrial stretch of the Mississippi River where it stands. A lengthy, covered bridge-to-nowhere cantilevers out from one side of the building like a robot arm toward the river, ending in ledges of tiered seating for taking in the view...
...Someone in a Wu-Tang Clan Facebook group got a Wu-Tang tattoo on his arm. What’s the craziest thing a fan has ever done? R: I seen a fan with a tattoo of Ol’ Dirty Bastard on his leg before, looked just like him, I thought that was pretty hot. FM: Is that the craziest thing, tattoos? R: It’s one of the craziest things...but I think it’s just traveling all over the world and just seeing different people from different nationalities that don’t speak...
Enter Holtom, who brought to the DAC his design for a symbol that marchers could carry on banners and signs. He had arrived at the image by combining the semaphore signals for the letters N, for nuclear, and D, for disarmament. The first is a figure with arms held downward and out from both sides; the second, a figure holding one arm above its head while the other points to the ground...
...parts for armored vehicles to uniforms that are insufficiently camouflaged. German soldiers have taken to buying their own gun holsters because the army-issue variety do not fit properly under their bullet-proof vests. German helicopters, according to a source at the International Security Assistance Force (NATO's military arm in Afghanistan), can't fly at night because they do not have the required navigation equipment. "They are fundamentally good helicopters," says the ISAF source, "but they are fundamentally useless." Then there is training: one in four German soldiers, according to a recent parliamentary report, do not exercise. Some...
...visited the woman's village of Denchira, near the Ghanaian capital of Accra, she sat timidly on a bench amid her neighbors, who had assembled to greet us. She appeared to be in excruciating pain, and it looked as if she were cradling a baby in her right arm. As I approached, I was shocked to see that she was not holding a baby but her grossly swollen right breast. A guinea worm was emerging from the nipple, causing her a fiery agony as it migrated through her body. Here was the most graphic and disturbing example I had ever...