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...still ride your motorcycle and, if so, do you wear a helmet? I do, and yes, it's a state law [to wear a helmet]. Today it's kind of cold and foggy, so I won't ride. Well, I might. Never know. I might just get on to it and go if the sun peeks out. You know, when I was young, I didn't wear a helmet...
...block foot patrols through the worst areas. It's perilous work. On one morning this month, Tasayco and Corporal Nathan Buck take their squad out to commandeer a small shopping complex, which will give cover for the rest of the platoon to push east. On the roof, Buck, his helmet emblazoned with the words DEATH DEALERS in thick letters, warns his Marines to stay alert. When Tasayco sees movement in a nearby window, Buck rises to check it out. An insurgent sniper fires at his head, cracking a round into the lip of the cement wall in front...
...tiara. There’s a pink trash can in the corner and a sequin-studded sign reading “Princess” on the wall. She leaves her combat boots outside the door next to her pack, which is stuffed with a sleeping bag, rations, bulletproof Kevlar helmet, compass, digging tool—everything a solider needs to survive. Inside her room, Waterman changes for class. She lets down her blonde hair from the tight bun required by army regulations. Since she’s not running late, she puts on pearls and a pink dress. Bronzer, mascara...
...respect for opponents and fans. The exuberance with which Australian batsmen are celebrating on reaching their centuries has become absurd. Much fuss was made over Michael Slater's reaction to making a hundred at Lord's in 1993. But that display, which included kissing the Australian crest on his helmet, was subdued compared to the fits of self-congratulation in which players, including Ponting, now routinely engage...
...What the hell are you doing here?'" She angrily demanded the infantrymen give her female soldiers breathing space so they could prove their worth. Usually in such circumstances, the men oblige, says Collins, but that doesn't spare women some awkward moments. "Even when I take off my helmet, the Iraqi women don't believe I'm a female," says Sergeant Elizabeth Ricci, 20. "They'll come up and tug my hair." And Iraqi men? "One man saw a ring on my finger and asked who I was married to," she recalls. Joking around, Ricci pointed to a male soldier...