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While the rest of his unit unloaded its gear on the outskirts of the city, Dan went to the Tal Ara base, a rocky military outpost overlooking the city, to make a final check of the target's coordinates. Then Dan rejoined his men and gave them a pep talk. In speeches like these, he addresses his troops as "lions." Based on the accounts of the soldiers after the operation, Dan and his unit moved into the casbah at 2:30, using their preferred mode of transport--their feet. "You have to walk very, very carefully," he says. In groups...
...Zachary A. Corker ’04 and Paul H. Hersh ’04—all organizers of last year’s notorious Mather Lather party—started HarvardParties.com this summer in an effort to kick Harvard’s social scene into gear...
...possible before May. The Russian Naval Command hasn't committed to a date but promises it will retrieve K-159 by next year--without foreign assistance. TIME's source is skeptical. The navy is short on funds. Three years after the Kursk disaster, it still hasn't bought the gear necessary for such an operation. The government, meanwhile, has allocated only $70 million for all nuclear clean-up and maintenance in Russia. It cost $150 million to recover the Kursk. --By Yuri Zarakhovich
...singer-songwriter who plays club gigs in Cincinnati, Ohio, a few nights a week and works for an interactive design firm during the day. "I'd love to make a living at making music," says Geonetta, who notes he spends about $2,000 a year on music gear and drives 20 miles to the nearest Guitar Center rather than visit the neighborhood music shop...
...boost from advances in digital recording technology. Artists like Geonetta who don't have a record-label contract used to have to pay tens of thousands of dollars for studio time plus distribution costs. But now amateurs can produce CDs with their home PCs and cheap recording and mixing gear--there's even a free version of the industry-standard music-editing software called Pro Tools available online. Geonetta plans to lay down tracks for a solo acoustic album in his home studio and burn 1,000 CDs through a copying service. He'll sell the album at his shows...