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...just when it seemed as if the iconic U.S. entertainment form was headed for extinction, a mini-revival began. Fueled by a blast of nostalgia as well as families tired of spending upwards of $50 to take the kids to the multiplex, new drive-ins have opened in Texas, Montana, Alabama, Georgia, Pennsylvania and New York, while all over the country, vintage theaters have been renovated. Websites like drive-in.net and driveintheater.com keep aficionados updated about openings and showtimes...
...unexploded 155mm artillery shells rests guiltily on the verge. A series of blast marks - scorched rocks, burnt earth and small holes gouged into the soil - along one stretch of road leading to the Christian village of Dibil suggests either a heavy artillery bombardment, or perhaps signs of Hizballah's roadside bombs, possibly detonated against Israeli tanks...
...clouds of smoke and dust blossom on the rocky hillsides. The flames and smoke of brush fires sparked by shelling add to the noonday haze and turn vast expanses of countryside into sterile charred deserts. Jets swoop overhead, dropping massive bombs that leave huge towering columns of smoke, the blast carried for miles on the hot breeze...
...first explosion, a second device is detonated, doubling the toll. There was even a double bombing 100 yards from the main entrance of the Green Zone, the highly fortified enclave that houses the seat of the Iraqi government and the headquarters of the U.S. military. The twin blasts--one a car bomb, the other a suicide bomber--killed 16 people near some small shops where journalists emerging from the Green Zone on hot afternoons stop to buy cold sodas. Although the Green Zone is one of the most protected places in Iraq, the entrance known as Checkpoint...
KIMBERLY DOZIER, the CBS correspondent critically wounded in an explosion while reporting from Iraq in May, was released from a rehabilitation facility in Maryland last week. The blast killed her camera crew and left Dozier with wounds to her head, legs and lower body. "I'm up on crutches and can even manage with a cane," she said in a written statement last week. "It's not pretty, but I'm walking...