Word: armoring
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...context effect, and has learned to use it to great advantage. Last Wednesday, in an important speech mostly blasted out of the news cycle by another suicide bombing in Iraq, Cheney took issue with the claim of Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., that soldiers who want body armor and other needed equipment have to purchase it on eBay, because the military does not provide it. But Cheney didn’t refute the claim at all. Instead, he pointed out that Kerry voted against an appropriation of $87 billion requested by the president for the Iraq effort, giving...
Military dogs heading to Iraq are getting their own body armor. The Marine Corps trains German shepherds and Belgian Malinois for guard duty and, with added schooling, to sniff out bombs and drugs. Now they will be equipped with Kevlar vests, which protect the dogs from shoulders to rump. The 7-lb. vests (cost: $1,000 each) have pouches for cooling packs--panting alone won't do the trick in an Iraqi summer--as well as loops for ropes to help the dogs climb steep terrain and a harness for parachuting into hostile territory...
...would have been better off in a Toyota Highlander." BRIAN HART, father of Private First Class John Hart who was killed in Iraq while fighting from a humvee that lacked bulletproof armor...
...some major quest, the point of which is not easy to understand--dragon this, family honor that and so on. Whatever. You won't get bored unless leaping into the air, running along a wall, doing a somersault, tossing three shuriken (ninja throwing stars) at a guy in samurai armor and then decapitating him in one smooth motion is something you do, like, all the time. Game-play-wise, Ninja Gaiden is a neat combination of fighting and exploring, and although it's quite violent, the action is rendered in such lush detail--streaming sunlight, falling leaves, birds circling overhead...
...ready to challenge his judgment, signaling a change in the climate at the very moment the 2004 campaign was beginning for real. If the Democrats are right that a lot of voters are now more worried about getting sick or getting fired than about getting blown up, then the armor Bush has been wearing for 2 1/2 years may protect him less than it weighs him down. A Republican who travels the country sees the weaknesses in Bush's message: "Bush says the economy is getting better, and he's right, but no one feels it. And he says...