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...expect a combination of air power and special forces on the ground. "I think we'll end up paralyzing a big chunk of Afghanistan with air strikes, and then move rapidly to do a decisive takedown," a U.S. Army general tells TIME. If that is the game, a nighttime blizzard of cruise missiles and bombs would be followed by U.S. commandos--probably including elements of the 82nd Airborne, backed by elite Army Rangers and Delta Force members--all trying to capture or kill bin Laden. "[Bush] won't be taken seriously if he tries to do it all from...
...stood there completely stunned. After a few seconds, the revolving door began to turn and a single man entered, covered from head to foot with concrete dust. For a second, it seemed he had just walked in from a blizzard—only this blizzard was comprised entirely of dust...
...slouching toward the horizontal in their chairs, some of them actually snoring, heads thrown back and mouths wide open, so that you see all the way to the tonsils - a classroom that looks like the waiting room at Dulles International when it's socked in by a three-day blizzard...
...there are two reasons to think that may not happen. First, faced with swelling resentment from doctors and teachers over a blizzard of detailed performance targets spewing from London, he is planning to give them more money and autonomy. That means a less centralized vision for reform. And, say several people close to him, Blair is changing. "He's more confident," says one. "There's a serenity that's new." In this case, will the personal become the political? If, as Blair says, the success of his reforms depends on decentralizing power, the fate of the two Britains may depend...
...plastic surgeons. Even the money, Shenzhen's raison d'etre, is suspect: local buses alone collect $160,000 in fake coins every year. Shenzhen has all the license, 24-hour fun and behind-the-set tragedy of the world's worst border towns?albeit one with skyscrapers and a blizzard of cash...