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Then there are love interests Gannon and Wade. A chance trip to Thailand allows them to glisten and gleam as the water slides off their bodies, but the longish, supposedly sultry stares leave you anticipating a “bam-chick-a-bam-bam” background sound...
...ground floor of the station, the red-and-white trucks gleam and pump diesel fumes into yellow hoses. The department has come a long way since the days of horse-drawn rescue trucks, but up a back set of stairs to the firefighter’s quarters, it often seems that little has changed. Green metal lockers fill one room, and beyond it scraggly mattresses rest on bed frames that Brogan, the lieutenant, jokes are remnants of World...
...Today, the village looks smarter than it ever has: where tractors once lay rusting, Ferraris and suvs now gleam, their owners ensconced in Les Deux Abbesses' luxurious embrace. "We have created a company that employs more than 20 workers, 90% of them local," says Hermet, "and we have worked toward the preservation of rural architecture." Along the way, they may also have created a blueprint for many other rural villages to follow...
While the ability to wage such high-tech combat will remain a dream, or nightmare, for years to come, it is very much a gleam in the Pentagon's eye. Working largely through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a special unit devoted to exotic weaponry, military planners are developing a generation of computerized land and air systems that Buck Rogers would envy. Prototypes are being built by defense contractors around the U.S., and will be tested in coming months at sites ranging from private proving grounds to engineering laboratories...
Democracy in Iraq is in the eye of the beholder. ??Some see in next week's national election a gleam of salvation after years of tyranny and occupation; others perceive the sharp threat of civil war. For the al-Saadi family in Baghdad, the Jan. 30 election can't come soon enough. "I'd like to go out and vote right now," says Karim, 43, an electrical-goods salesman who supports a family of 12. His neighborhood, the hardscrabble district of Washash, home to a mainly Shi'ite population of laborers and small traders...