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...women reach Vietnam, they are subjected to a complex, yet predictable string of failed relationships with soldiers and shocking images of death and mutilation. In the typical fashion of a Vietnam War story, the characters, though warned of the horrors of Vietnam, are nevertheless overwhelmed by what they witness first-hand...
Since Fire came out only days after the attacks, Junger’s book tour has less been about fire, whales or diamonds and more about trying to offer his perspective, having seen first-hand the conflict and turmoil of Afghanistan. “Events now seem so important, so delicate.... Every so often, my publisher has to call and say, ‘Hey, you’re trying to sell this book,’” he explained at a reading for WordsWorth Books last week. As an inquisitive audience grilled him on Afghanistan, his time...
...civil war that spans over a decade and has outlived any number of broken peace accords and cease-fire treaties, it is often hard to recount what led up to the violence that Edgar and his family witnessed first-hand. The two major players in the nations’s civil war are the freely elected government, which is backed by the UN and a host of neighboring West African countries, and a band of militia rebels who, among other things, want to control Sierra Leone’s profitable diamond mines. The rebels call themselves the Revolutionary United Front...
...widely believed to have planned the attack on the U.S.S. Cole, as well as the bombing of American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. Now more than 6,000 innocent civilians have been killed, and the U.S. has the right and obligation to investigate the source of these atrocities first-hand...
That was a first-hand lesson in how the wrong backpack, or carrying one improperly, can lead to serious problems. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, 5,900 kids were treated at hospital emergency rooms, clinics and doctors' offices last year for sprains and strains directly caused by backpacks. Indeed, such injuries are so widespread that more than 70% of physicians surveyed by the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons listed backpacks as a potential clinical problem for children, and 58% said they had treated patients for pain caused by heavy backpacks...