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...Afghanistan, is not, as Corliss states, that "we've dwelled too long in the crypts of antiscientific dystopia." It is rather that the possession of state-of-the-art high-tech weaponry is the key to the triumph of good over evil, that might makes right and that combat is just a high-tech video game. The real villains in this film are not the merchants who supply both sides with weapons of mass destruction, but filmmakers who are warping the hearts and minds of the current generation of moviegoers. Jean Ann Edsall, Eugene, Oregon...
Corporal Steve Wardrobe holds up a globe of freshly sugared fried dough, and uses a syringe from his combat medical kit to inject it with raspberry jam. There's no better cure for a rough day out on patrol, he has learned out here in the wilds of Afghanistan's Helmand province, than a fresh jelly doughnut. "These go down well with the lads," he says. The lads, in this instance, being the medics of D-company, 2nd Battalion of Britain's Parachute Regiment, stationed here at Forward Operating Base Zeebrugge -and the few groupies who have caught on that...
...medics' homemaking ingenuity is not confined to the "kitchen". The open ground between the bunkers and their sleeping quarters has been turned into a veritable apres-combat lounge. Faux leather car seats, taken out of a van that was turned into an ambulance, are lashed to empty missile containers. A coffee table made from a slab of concrete balanced on artillery boxes is appointed with an i-Pod and speakers. A parachute, rescued from an airdrop of food supplies and stretched over a frame of scavenged bamboo provides welcome shade in the 42-degree centigrade heat. Perched on a ledge...
Johnson lays out four things the company needs to do, which you could pretty much boil down to this: Figure out a way to combat Google. He alludes to a "major new initiative" the company will be announcing at an annual advertising conference in Redmond later this week. The initiative, he promised, will "innovate and disrupt in search." Good luck with that, but at this point even a Yahoo acquisition might be too late...
...both political parties. True, the maverick clips Republicans often: He called Donald Rumsfeld one of the worst defense secretaries in history, dubbed the federal response to Hurricane Katrina “disgraceful,” and slammed President Bush for “shirking” his duty to combat climate change...