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Emiko Okada was 8 and playing in the yard with her two little brothers when she saw the blinding light. Then came a boom and and a blast that knocked her unconscious. When she came to, she recalls, "I felt like the sun was falling toward me." Her brothers wailed beside her, their bodies swollen with burns. Neighbors stumbled by, naked, skin hanging off them in shreds. Corpses littered the road. It was Aug. 6, 1945, in Hiroshima. No one in the southern Japanese city had paid much attention to the distant buzz of three American B-29 bombers overhead...
...Sunday morning when I was awakened by the first blast--a boom 10 times louder than a car backfiring. Ten seconds later there was a second blast, and then soldiers started screaming, "Get out! Get out!" Someone had slipped two hand grenades into the tent housing more than a dozen of the brigade's officers. One woman in my tent, which was 10 yards away from the explosion, yelled, "I'm hit." A piece of shrapnel from the grenade had lodged...
...mortar attack had been a diversion. The taxi had detonated near a Kurdish checkpoint where Moran had been filming some soldiers. The blast loosed a fireball, charred the asphalt and left the taxi a smoking hulk. A roadside stall was set alight. Paul died instantly. Two Kurdish soldiers were also killed and five more seriously wounded...
...impose Islamic fundamentalism on the secular Kurds. There are no noncombatants here. One morning, while in a position being bombarded by mortars for six hours, one of the local fighters known as peshmerga told me, "These bombs don't recognize your identity." Territory shifts frequently. The day before the blast, the checkpoints were manned by a local fundamentalist militia, known as Komal, which is allied to Ansar and protects its northern flank...
Harvard’s hitters showed some raw power against No. 18 Florida Atlantic (24-7) last Monday night, but not enough to go blast-for-blast with the Owls...