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COLLEAGUES ONCE GAVE YOU A GOLD-PLATED GRENADE BECAUSE OF YOUR REPUTATION AS A BOMB THROWER. WHERE IS IT? Somewhere in Washington. I've got an apple that the mayor [of New York] gave me. [Displays a glass apple.] It's got his signature...
...triggermen hiding along the road." She nods. In the gunner's hatch, she is armed with a 240 Bravo machine gun that fires 950 rounds a minute, but she is more vulnerable than the men inside the humvee's armored shell to sniper bullets and shrapnel from roadside bombs. As the convoy rolls down the back roads, Swenson and the guys in her humvee keep up an easy, comradely banter, joking about the Iraqi kids they see along their patrol: one boy moves like a hip-hop dancer, another like a ninja fighter. Swenson says, "What I'll remember...
...offers little evidence to back a common argument against the use of women in combat: that they are more likely than men to panic under fire. Marine Colonel Bob Chase, who oversees the training of new Marine officers in Quantico, Va., says that last June, hours after a roadside bomb near Fallujah killed four Marines, including three women, and injured 11 other women, a female Marine officer pulled him aside. Standing with her were more than a dozen other female Marines. "We want to take their place," the officer told Chase...
...rather cheeky at a Games hosted by Italy, was equally bold on the ice, opening his routine with an awesome combination of a quadruple toe loop, a triple toe loop and a double toe loop, followed by a triple Axel-double toe. Although his athleticism and signature Sex Bomb exhibition routines?he skates to the Tom Jones song wearing a skin-colored muscle suit?have made Plushenko a pin-up star back home, the Russian tellingly avoided paying homage to the state as Soviet athletes once felt obliged to do. "I have a great coach," said Plushenko, dodging a question...
Islamic law forbids illustrations of Muhammad, and the nature of the images—one of them depicting Muhammad as a terrorist with a bomb in his turban—has raised ire across the globe...