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...extraordinary briefing in the Green Zone pointed a finger but it wavered. The sophisticated bomb technology behind some of the deadliest improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Iraq came from neighboring Iran, said U.S. military officials in Baghdad on Sunday. Those IEDs used a molten ball of copper to punch through the armor of American vechicles to kill or main the passengers. Such explosively-formed penetrators (EFPs) have killed 170 U.S. troops and wounded 620 more since the spring of 2004. Their use has doubled since 2006, accelerating at the end of that year. The U.S. is usually guarded in revealing...
...industry should send a couple of season passes to downhiller Karen Harsch--gratis. The 38-year-old mother and ex--U.S. Ski Team member slaps on her sticks 50 times a season in Summit County, Colo., often bopping from Arapahoe Basin and Keystone to Copper Mountain and Breckenridge in a single week. Chances are her 6-year-old daughter will follow in her mother's boot steps...
...with one shampooing; others require as many as six. "They're cosmetics for the hair," declares James Viera of L'Oréal, which sells its wash-away dyes at drugstore cosmetic counters across the country. Says Diane Wonnell, 23, a Philadelphia medical student who sometimes turns her brown locks copper red for an evening's fun: "It's funky and sexy. It's like painting your nails...
...massacre instigates a wave of violent attacks on Huguenots throughout France, Isabelle flees to Switzerland with Etienne and her children, hoping to find there religious toleration. As Ella and Rick’s marriage crumbles, Ella’s hair takes on Isabelle’s copper cast, and it is to a distant cousin’s home in Switzerland that Ella herself flees...
...this hub of a glorious, steam-driven empire, the average life expectancy of the city's poorest was only 16, and the cellars of even the better off were often full of excrement. Still, the muck signaled a business opportunity to the 100,000 or so toshers (copper salvagers), mudlarks and bone-pickers who crammed the city's margins, scavenging its corpses or sifting through its effluvia on the banks of the Thames. The air in parts of the capital was so appalling that when, in 1854, cholera struck on Broad Street in the Soho district and quickly developed into...