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...acre office park two years ago, discussion of film reels has replaced talk about bullets. But just a decade ago, the sprawling Watertown commercial center was home to one of the busiest munitions plants in the country. The Arsenal churned out ammunition, small arms, ammo cartridges, and light armor for the U.S. Military until it was decommissioned in 1995. The site was subsequently cleaned up and developed into a multi-use office park, which Harvard acquired in 2001 for a modest $162 million...
...thwarted when God froze them in a blinding flash of light. Here Caravaggio's sharp illumination is not just a pictorial device; it's God's own light, thrown onto the scene. The mocking figure at lower right is the Roman proconsul who ordered the crucifixion, dressed in the armor of Caravaggio's day. At left is a peasant woman with a goiter who represents the faithful. Between them Caravaggio has left open a space for us to enter the picture and choose sides. Naples was also where Caravaggio painted The Flagellation of Christ, part of his attempt to bring...
...from 1975 until 1990. During his tenure, gleaming hotels and apartment towers sprang up along Beirut's Mediterranean shore. Perhaps that is why it was there, on a bend in the famed seafront corniche just by the five-star Phoenicia Hotel, that a thunderous explosion blew apart Hariri's armor-plated convoy, killing him and 14 others. As the blast showered the pavement with broken glass and sent a column of black smoke into the sky, suspicion quickly focused on the country that has used political assassination to maintain its dominion over Lebanon for three decades: Syria. Though Damascus denied...
...position to defend itself without depending on the U.S. - a non-negotiable demand for a government led by the Shiite parties - Iraq will need a conventional army substantially larger than the 36,635 soldiers currently envisaged in U.S. planning. And it will need an air force, armor, artillery, and other standards of a modern army, most of which the U.S. has not begun putting in place. On the basis of the current patterns of force-development, the need for a U.S. presence could persist for years. But in light of the sentiments expressed by Hakim and other Shiite leaders...
...sounds like something out of a bad horror movie. Swarms of imported red fire ants?Brazilian insects with scarlet armor and a burning sting?have run rampant in parts of the United States, Australia and Taiwan, consuming small birds, felling livestock, and leaving painful welts on any human skin they contact. Its Latin species name, invicta, means invincible, and so far no affected country has managed to eradicate an infestation of the 2- to 6-mm-long ant. "I hate them," says Keith McCubbin, director of the Queensland Fire Ant Control Centre, which is spending $136 million...