Word: busters
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...under heavy fire from small arms and rocket-propelled grenades, one of which bounced, without exploding, off the armor of a Chinook. In the same bird, a hydraulic line was cut, and the pilots radioed back to Bagram that continuing with the mission would be suicide. Major General Frank (Buster) Hagenbeck, the force commander, agreed, and the choppers veered away to the north, climbing steeply. They found a place to set down and did a head count. On the damaged Chinook, one man was missing. They counted again. Navy SEAL Neil Roberts, the rear gunner who had been returning fire...
...proposed new thinking substantially lowers the threshold for launching nuclear strikes - it even calls for a new generation of tactical "bunker-buster" nukes to destroy underground arsenals of biological weapons. Not exactly a doomsday weapon of last resort. And the idea of giving nuclear weapons a more everyday function in military thinking has certainly shocked both America's allies and its adversaries...
...CANCER BUSTER Just last year the breakthrough drug Gleevec looked so promising for treating a rare form of cancer called chronic myeloid leukemia that it received FDA approval in a record 2 1/2 months. Now it seems Gleevec may be even more effective than first thought. A study shows that after two years on the drug, 95% of patients are still alive, with 40% in complete remission. Treatment isn't cheap (cost: $2,400 a month), and the pills may have to be taken for life. But we haven't heard the last of Gleevec. It's being tested...
...under heavy fire from small arms and rocket-propelled grenades, one of which bounced, without exploding, off the armor of a Chinook. In the same bird, a hydraulic line was cut, and the pilots radioed back to Bagram that continuing with the mission would be suicide. Major General Frank (Buster) Hagenbeck, the force commander, agreed, and the choppers veered away to the north, climbing steeply. They found a place to set down and did a head count. On the damaged Chinook, one man was missing. They counted again. Navy SEAL Neil Roberts, the rear gunner who had been returning fire...
...Aweigh": the sequence took eight weeks for Sinatra to learn and perform. But with that industry and application, young men could copy the standard Kelly posture: torso erect, legs swerving as if jellified. That?s the legacy of Kelly?s teenage tap-dancing. Tap has just that contradictory posture: Buster Keaton from the waist up, Jim Carrey from the waist down. The form has a built-in irony, one half of the body counterpointing and commenting on the other half...