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...streets of Baghdad. But it didn't take long to realize that this was no routine mission. Minutes after Makwakwa's humvee pulled out of Camp Liberty last December, bad news crackled over the radio: a supply convoy of six 18-wheel trucks was ambushed at Checkpoint 50, a freeway cloverleaf that is a notorious shooting alley for insurgents. Makwakwa, a bright, fit New Orleans native, handles medical logistics for the U.S. 10th Mountain Division--the kind of deskbound job often assigned to women G.I.s. Now she found herself wearing a first-aid kit on her belt, gripping...
...fellow Californians, I say?message received." Among other things, he proposes to repay elementary and secondary schools the $1.67 billion the state previously borrowed to close the budget gap. He would finance his public-works projects not with higher taxes but with a combination of bond sales and freeway tolls. Most startling, Schwarzenegger conferred so frequently on those ideas with Democratic legislative leaders that "Democrats all but wrote the speech," says Fabian Núńez, the Democratic assembly speaker who has shared cigars, wine and espresso with the Governor during their confabs...
...poignant and funny pictures of run-down Western towns; a crazy photograph of sodium calcite crystals in Adams’s developing tray; a striking portrait of Georgia O’Keefe and Orville Cox; and, among Adams’ last pictures, an aerial view of a Los Angeles freeway interchange that evokes the powerful feeling of discovering something new and beautiful in the mundane—much like earlier close-ups of ferns and lichen.Despite the variety of subjects on display, Adams’ style doesn’t change much after the first gallery. Everything...
...Taipei, challenges included diving into the frigid Taipei harbor, swimming out 200 meters, climbing a rope, and “gladiator-combating” another contestant. Another dare involved shimmying out on a 10-meter metal pole off a 30-story building above a freeway to retrieve a flag...
...city, however, will open opportunities to do things better. Hospitals could be redesigned to provide parking on the lower floors so that any future flooding would not reach the floors where patients and medical records would be kept. After the 1989 earthquake collapsed sections of San Francisco's Embarcadero Freeway, the city demolished elevated segments and developed a splendid park and waterfront esplanade. "We didn't replan the city," says Mary Comerio, author of Disaster Hits Home, a study of six postdisaster reconstruction efforts. "But we took these terrific opportunities to remake pieces...