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...four- to six-man teams, they will chopper into place, flying into canyons under cover of darkness. Then, protected by Kevlar body armor, they will fast-rope to the ground, bending under the weight of night-sighted M-4 carbines and grenade launchers, carrying radios and handheld global-positioning gear. Some of the teams will feature snipers; others will race across the desert in specially equipped dune buggies; yet others will practice their mountaineering skills, crawling over Afghanistan's rugged mountains. For many search-and-destroy missions, the aim will be to get in and out so fast that forces...
...commandos--led by Army Rangers--lifted off in helicopters and MC-130 Combat Talon planes from bases in southern Pakistan and Oman. A military cameraman videotaped the special forces donning fatigues (the camera zoomed in on a photo of New York fire fighters that commandos had packed in their gear to leave at their destinations), boarding aircraft and leaping out in Afghanistan. While a group of commandos seized a dry-lake airstrip some 100 miles southwest of Kandahar, other troops headed to Kandahar itself in pursuit of Omar and one of his command centers. The special forces didn't manage...
Harvard’s health departments have kicked into high gear in the last few days in preparation for the unlikely event of a bioterrorism attack on University soil...
This small-scale production of The Maids starts truly in medias res, with the action kicking into high gear, and never slowing, once one enters the creative set/theater/stage. The simple set is truly a wonder, providing the perfect arena for the maids’ stealthy, furtive dialogue, in which the audience glimpses scenes that the characters believe are secreted...
TIME.com: Do reports that U.S. special forces are now operating inside Afghanistan signal a gear shift...