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...Around midday, a man armed with a rifle strolled up the track. The soldiers froze. Spotting the odd-looking bush from about 10 m away, the man "went for his weapon," according to the patrol report. "It was the last thing he did,'' says the trooper. The SAS men opened fire. Alerted by the gunshots, armed men fanned out from the village below, some climbing the path toward the gun emplacement. The troopers fired shots and threw a grenade in an effort to keep them back, but the Afghans split up and outflanked them. Within minutes, bullets were whizzing from...
With one out in the second, Wilson battled back from an 0-2 count to draw a walk, then Wheeler fouled off three consecutive two-strike offerings before earning his own free pass. After Collis froze Vance with a breaking ball on the outside corner for the second out of the inning, Wallace blooped a single just over the outstretched glove of a diving Matt Miller at shortstop to score Wilson and put Harvard...
With one out in the second, Wilson battled back from and 0-2 count to get a walk, then Wheeler fouled off three consecutive two-strike offerings before earning his own free pass. After Collis froze Vance with a breaking ball on the outside corner for the second out of the inning, Wallace blooped a single just over the outstretched glove of a diving Matt Miller at shortstop to score Wilson and put Harvard...
Despite the strides the festival has made toward professionalism over the years, the screenings were still plagued by technical difficulties. Numerous films had to be restarted after they froze, and a few failed to make it to the big screen at all during the weekend...
...computer at the Los Angeles department of water and power. The device did not explode; it was a "logic bomb," a smidgen of spurious software coding that had been secretly inserted into the giant IBM machine. At a preassigned time, the logic bomb suddenly went off and maliciously froze the utility's internal files. Work came to a standstill until a team of experts, including the Los Angeles police department's newly formed computer crime unit, was able to uncover the subversive coding. The unknown criminal, who could face five years in the California state penitentiary...