Word: khaki
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...soldiers of the Afghan National Army (ANA) have the most dangerous job in Afghanistan. The dark khaki camouflage uniform - a gift from the U.S. government - may as well be a beacon for Taliban attacks. Insurgents often target the ANA, knowing that the poorly prepared troops rarely drive armored vehicles and lack sufficient firepower to mount a counter-offensive. Several hundred ANA troops have died in combat since 2003, and a new Taliban directive has decreed that their alliance with foreign forces makes ANA soldiers infidels, and thus a legitimate target...
...says Carlyon, 64. A journalist of the old school, he believes in seeing what you write about. With history, he must be content to recreate things, like a detective at a crime scene. "You try to redraw the landscape," he writes. "You try to draw in trench lines ... and khaki bundles hung up on barbed wire." Near Ypres, he watched archaeologists probe the spot where a man's bones had been found. They unearthed a belt buckle, bullet casings, bits of leather. The unknown soldier kept coming into Carlyon's mind for weeks. "What was he doing when the shell...
...action man's death on Sept. 4, after he was speared in the chest by a stingray's barb, has exposed his country's cringe-its tendency to seek foreign validation. The self-styled crocodile hunter made his mark elsewhere before anyone took notice of him in Australia; his khaki-costumed animal-adventure act and "Crikey!" cry were at first deemed over the top for local audiences. As well as selling himself, Irwin was promoting ideas-narrow ones, to be sure-about Australia: a land of dangers populated by simple, earthy people. To U.S. viewers, Irwin was a reprise...
...trend American shoppers won't be seeing much of is the teenybopper pastel sweaters and T shirts that were once Esprit staples. Instead, the selection is more mature--khaki pants, jeans, striped shirts and white blouses. Although Esprit still sells basics, its designers add some clever flourishes to give the styles more panache. The company is positioning itself to sell clothing at prices 10% to 15% lower than Banana Republic's. Krogner calls Esprit clothing "for good girls. Not the one with a ring in her nose or showing her belly...
When Paul Watson drives to work at Yatala, on Brisbane's southern edge, he rides high-and not just because of his vehicle's 37-in. wheels. He enjoys the double-takes people give his khaki and brown car-or-truck-or-is-it-a-tank: "They'll come up and say, Wow, that's awesome," says Watson. But the biggest lift comes from driving something that once existed only in his imagination: "To drive it down the road and think, 'We built this'-that's a real buzz...