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...enemy would not get the jump on Charlie Rock. A civilian pick-up had been spotted five hundred meters out on their right flank, another one crammed with people vanished behind a sand bungalow 1,200 meters away at their two o'clock. Here on the outskirts of Ash Shinariya, a small town on the Euphrates 200 kilometers south of Baghdad, crews spent their night watching thermal imaging detectors in Bradley fighting vehicles. They'd been picking up enemy scouts probing their sandbagged positions blocking a bridge over the Euphrates, five kilometers south west of town...
...sunshine after days of sandstorms and cold, mud and rain. Or maybe it's simply that we're out West and moving again, rolling North up to Baghdad. But when Charlie Rock's tanks and Bradleys roar up to take over the checkpoints on the bridge Ash Shifaniyah, a feeling runs through all 170 men that today, Day 7, is going to be a good...
Marianne Koole, manager of Grendel’s Den, sits at her bar with a drink. Laughing with patrons, she pauses to take a drag from her cigarette, blowing out the smoke slowly and sharply tapping off the ash...
...Marchant has found ice that promises to be more ancient still, as it lies beneath layers of ash that range between 1 million and 8 million years old. Just like the Vostok ice, Marchant's ice contains air bubbles, meaning that it could produce a record of carbon dioxide swings that occurred over this distant and dimly understood interval of time. First, of course, Marchant will have to convince skeptical colleagues that his ice really is that old, that it has not been reworked by geological processes--and this is likely to take some doing. But if that effort proves...
...ash heap of the airline business is littered with start-ups that tried to imitate a successful carrier and failed. But these are desperate times. Next week, 75-year-old Delta Airlines, which is losing money along with most other major airlines, will announce details of its own start-up airline called Song. Other major carriers have tried this tune before: US Airways and United started mini-airlines mainly to compete with low-cost king Southwest Airlines, but neither one is flying today...