Word: armoring
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...remains a problem for frontline National Guard troops too. At a House Armed Services Committee hearing last week, Ohio Democrat Tim Ryan held up photos of vehicles in Iraq sent to him by National Guard soldiers from the 42nd Infantry Division. The vehicles still had not been fitted with armor, despite Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's assurance they would all have extra protection by Feb. 15. General John Abizaid, the U.S. Central Command's chief, who was testifying, promised to investigate. "It's very frustrating," Ryan later told TIME, "that we're still not protecting our troops." --By Douglas Waller...
...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...
...traveling to Iraq and Afghanistan over the recess as part of her service on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said she has already met two fans of the President's ideas. While visiting troops in both countries, two soldiers, who she expected to be asking about body armor or when they were coming home, started lobbying her about the value of getting personal accounts in Social Security. "Lindsey Graham was thrilled," Collins said of the South Carolina Senator who was also on the trip and has sponsored a bill that would set up private accounts...
...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...