Word: armored
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...movie is totally gay, a romp in Homer eroticism. Male body worship abounds; the actors, who seem pumped up on Hellenic growth hormones, hardly need shields or swords. Their pecks are their breastplate; their tumorous abs are their body armor. (Thee closing credits list two "personal trainers to Mr. Butler, so I guess the muscles aren't all CGI.) They boast and tease each other about their physiques, which to me sounds like flirting. At times these ancient bodybuilders look like their own statuary, heroic and sometimes headless...
...there was fallout for Democrats appearing weak on Vietnam. It's been the Democrats who have been for armor for the troops. We have been for investing in our servicemen when they come back from Iraq. And it is the Democrats who want to get our American troops out of the civil-war cross fire. Democrats are concerned about the security of the fighting person. Too often Republicans are more interested in protecting the reputation of the President than protecting the troops...
Soldiers heading into Iraq lack the latest armor for their Humvees. Their tanks and helicopters are wearing out far faster than the Pentagon planned for. So, sadly, it should come as little surprise that, according to the nation's largest group of mental-health experts, soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan aren't getting all the help they need from the government that sent them off to fight...
...Green Zone pointed a finger but it wavered. The sophisticated bomb technology behind some of the deadliest improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Iraq came from neighboring Iran, said U.S. military officials in Baghdad on Sunday. Those IEDs used a molten ball of copper to punch through the armor of American vechicles to kill or main the passengers. Such explosively-formed penetrators (EFPs) have killed 170 U.S. troops and wounded 620 more since the spring of 2004. Their use has doubled since 2006, accelerating at the end of that year. The U.S. is usually guarded in revealing any information that might...
...local mental hospital, college students and office workers who line up at local coffee shops. A stone's throw from the court is a strip joint advertising, in neon, "Mugs and Jugs." Nearby, a shop displays garish Valentine's Day wares: a larger-than-life knight in shining armor standing tall beside a Queen of Hearts. It's a costume shop, of course. Vancouver, in these dark days, has a dearth of real-life romantic heroes...