Word: guernsey
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This isn't a real ambush, and the convoy isn't in Iraq or Afghanistan. It's in Guernsey, Wyo., about 90 miles north of Cheyenne. The attack was staged by the U.S. Army for the benefit of about 35 computer programmers--the civilian evacuees--who work on a government-sponsored video game called America's Army. It'sa handy training tool for soldiers, but the game's primary mission is to recruit: to persuade the millions of young people who play it on their home computers to go from virtual soldiers to real ones. The programmers are in Guernsey...
Realism is why the programmers, many notably plumper and longer-haired than regulation soldiers, have come to Guernsey. The Army releases updates and expansions for America's Army three or four times a year, and to keep the programmers on point it holds events like these--they're known internally as green-ups--every few months. Over the course of three days, they eat MREs (the consensus: chili macaroni good, black bean and rice burrito very very bad), ride in Black Hawks ("That feeling has to be there," Bossant says. "We need that zoom!") and wander around a frozen meadow...
Attics are emptying, it seems, as the families of jazz greats prepare to sell off heirlooms at Guernsey's in New York City on Feb. 20, in the biggest auction ever devoted to the genre. To raise money for jazz charities, museum curators will compete with online eBay bidders for some 430 lots, including these treasures. --By Jeremy Caplan...
...taking sides in a cultural war, as Justice Antonin Scalia claimed in his dissenting opinion. The court was doing its job of protecting the right of privacy for every citizen in this country. Homosexuals are citizens just like Scalia, with all the attendant rights and privileges. COLLEEN GUERNSEY Toledo, Ohio...
...Supreme Court was not taking sides in a cultural war as Justice Antonin Scalia claimed in his dissenting opinion. The court was doing its job of protecting the rights of every citizen in this country. Homosexuals are citizens just like Scalia, with all the attendant rights and privileges. Colleen Guernsey Toledo...