Word: armorers
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...master of the old-fashioned technique of special-effects makeup--in which spirit gum, plaster casts and armor work, not computer fiddling, do the trick--Winston wanted more than audiences' screams. Often he earned their sympathy, as in the baleful, soulful face and kitchen-cutlery fingers of Edward Scissorhands and the mandroid smoothness of the robo-gigolo in A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. "I don't do special effects," Winston said. "I do characters...
...robot Teddy in A.I.-another melancholy mandroid in the Scissorhands style-and, just this year, the suit that Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark fashions in Iron Man. Stark's basement laboratory might have been Winston's workshop; the dedication and ingenuity Stark lavished on his jet-propelled armor were worthy of Stan the Man himself...
...there would be almost nothing I could do without Philippine assistance." The U.S. soldiers are high-value targets for the terrorists, however - in 2002 Green Beret Sergeant Mark Jackson was killed by an Abu Sayyaf bomb on the island of Mindanao. Outside the camp they wear full body armor and pack a fearsome array of weapons...
...Iraq and Afghanistan. The story details what is really happening to the men and women waging war in our name. Antidepressants help many thousands of people, but is it acceptable that such drugs have become in many ways another tool of war, along with M-16s and body armor? The piece also touches on a larger policy issue: "If these wars are important enough," asks Thompson, our national-security correspondent and a Pulitzer Prize winner, "isn't it important to have sufficient troops so that the Pentagon doesn't have to keep recycling troops into combat like mental cannon fodder...
Wars are like icebergs: much of the cost remains hidden, and the near doubling of the defense budget since 2001 does not cover what lies ahead. Better body armor and trauma care mean new life for thousands of soldiers who would have died in any earlier war. But many are broken or burned or buried in pain from what they saw and did. One in five suffers from major depression or posttraumatic stress, says a new Rand Corp. study; more than 300,000 have suffered traumatic brain injury. The cost of treating them is projected to double over the next...