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Taliban soldiers who had thoughts of fighting on were quickly dissuaded by the ruthless force and pinpoint precision of U.S. air power. The Pentagon's most celebrated tactic was its deployment of small groups of special-ops commandos to ride horseback with Northern Alliance forces and call in air strikes using handheld lasers and target-spotting binoculars. The combination of high-tech gadgetry, battlefield savvy and an increased use of precision-guided munitions made American power irresistible. "The bombs had a big effect," says Wahid Ahmed, 18, a Pakistani who fought with the Taliban in Kunduz and now languishes...
...activities: Horseback riding, night hike, rock climbing...
...activities: Horseback riding; deer and turkey hunting in adjacent forest; Cave Run Lake Storytelling Festival, Sept...
...cloistered region until the Japanese carved out a dirt transportation trail from Chiang Mai to Burma during World War II. Back then, the journey Pai-ward from Chiang Mai took three to seven days by elephant or on horseback. That was the route taken by former Kuomintang soldiers and their families who fled China after the communist takeover in 1949. The immigrants now own many of the charming teakwood houses and businesses in the four-road town; local Thais disparagingly call them jiin ha (galloping Chinese...
Instantaneous and voluntary was not supposed to be a state of motor control Reeve would ever achieve again--not since he fractured his neck at the second cervical vertebra in a horseback-riding accident in 1995. But Reeve's doctors announced last week that a little of what the actor lost that day is coming back. He can move the other fingers of his left hand too, as well as his right wrist. He can straighten his arms and legs and, in a swimming pool, initiate a step and push off against the wall. And he can survive...