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...unsettled and sometimes dangerous country it is a refuge where, after a few visits, everybody knows your name - especially Mark Victor and Thomas Cressaty, the journalists turned restaurateurs who opened L'Atmo (as the regulars call it) in 2004. On Thursday nights - the start of the Kabul weekend - the poolside bar bursts with an eclectic gathering of security analysts, foreign correspondents, diplomats, aid workers and miscellaneous adventure seekers chattering in multiple languages. If Star Wars were to be remade in Afghanistan, the bar scene where Han Solo encounters - and kills - a bounty hunter would take place at L'Atmo...
...Spending summer weekends at the spacious patio and pool is de rigueur for the Kabul social set, though conversations tend toward war stories rather than the latest charity ball. In fact, so central is L'Atmo to the lives of the Afghan capital's foreign community, Victor and Cressaty have opened a branch in Kabul's sandbag-ringed NATO compound. This is so that troops - who aren't allowed around town without a humvee escort - can get a decent meal with relative ease. To quote the restaurateurs' compatriot, Napoleon Bonaparte, "an army marches on its stomach." Dishes like L'Atmo...
...replace Sharon in February after the tough former general's image was besmirched by the intensive of Beirut and the Chris tian Phalangist massacre of some 700 to 800 Palestinians and other Arabs in refugee camps outside the city. The new minister moved quickly to establish a new atmo sphere in the defense Establishment, and his quiet approach contrasted sharply with the shrill, impulsive outbursts of his predecessor. Still, Arens is as fully committed as Sharon and Begin to Israel's role in Lebanon and to retaining control over the West Bank. The other leading candidates...
...climb into a pressure suit and go outside to reel the limb in. If that fails, the arm will have to be jettisoned in space. For unless the shuttle's big, heat-shielded cargo doors are shut tight, Columbia will not survive the scorching descent through the atmo sphere back to earth...
...moreover, has placed its power packs in a steel container shielded with ceramic material that absorbs heat and burns off upon re-entry into the atmo sphere. The container itself is designed to survive impact...