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...lead-up to the day, there had been talk of a parade by the rebels, who are proven bush fighters but renowned much more for massacres and mutilation than their army drill. Some, like Sals, a 24 year-old who said he joined the LRA in 1995, stayed long enough for a chat. "There are many bad things this government has done - that is why we are fighting them," he said, holding his AK-47 close to his chest. "But we are talking now," he added with a smile. "I will go back to Uganda when this war is finished...
...know the drill. As election day approaches, glossy pamphlets clog your mailbox. Annoying prerecorded calls jam your answering machine. Nasty attack ads disturb your prime-time TV viewing. You are bombarded at every turn, and you take it all in, with only one responsibility in mind: remember to vote...
...What will replace it, nearly everyone in Beirut speculated to me, is the resumption of the Hizballah-Israel war that ravaged Lebanon in the summer of 2006. Some Lebanese even have a precise date for it: April 6 - the day Israel's biggest emergency drill ever starts, when they believe the Israeli Defense Forces juggernaut will roll across the border to finish the job they should have during the 34-day conflict. Although, mind you, there's not a thread of evidence that the Israelis are really going to invade...
...Such a drop, called a loss of circulation, isn't uncommon in gas drilling. It usually means that natural fractures inside the borehole are allowing drilling fluid to leak out. Lapindo's engineers responded by pumping heavy drilling mud into the well to seal the cracks and restore pressure. Then they began to pull out the drill. Davies thinks that while they were removing the drill on the morning of May 28, they set off a massive "kick," in which high-pressure water and gas from the surrounding rock flowed into, rather than out of, the borehole. To prevent...
...thing you have to do in practice is run laps, but that’s just because I’m dictatorial as the IGP Czar. I like to make them run, but that really has nothing to do with improv. The hardest part of improv practice is this drill we do where you have to do a scene with no break in between talking. The scenes usually get really crazy and really dark and a lot of people die, but it’s also a lot of fun.RR: What’s the funniest thing you?...