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...everywhere this year. In a convergence of anniversaries, Darwin would have turned 200 years old on Feb. 12, and his landmark book, On the Origin of Species, turns 150 on Nov. 24. There will be documentaries, lectures, conferences and museum exhibits. Darwin-themed blogs are being launched, and a cartload of Darwin-related books are being published. A replica of H.M.S. Beagle, the ship that carried Darwin around the world, will retrace his path. This January, Stanford University let a group of 90 people do likewise - albeit more comfortably, on a private Boeing...
...like a video game, Stern certainly got a chance to hold the joystick. He says his best times in Baghdad involved the detonation of explosives. After the SF’s confiscate Iraqi weapons, they destroy them on an abandoned range. After the SF’s collected a cartload of AK47’s, Stern was allowed to explode the weapons with a remote control bomb. “I’d see a cloud of smoke and then I’d hear the explosion,” Stern says. He was ultimately responsible for nine such...