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...distinction between Apocalypse Now and my film is that Coppola always resolved films with ready cash. There was always a lot of money flowing around. In my case, because I had to produce the film myself, I was down to the utmost limit. So I lived in a chicken coop and had nothing to eat anymore. But I remembered from Miami I had two bottles of shampoo - well, one was shampoo and the other was conditioner - and I traded it at the local market for four kilos of rice, and I ate rice for three or four weeks. That...
...serving as part of the NATO-led international force, most based in northern Afghanistan, away from the violent southern provinces. An additional 200 soldiers are heading there in the run-up to the Afghan presidential election on August 20, bringing the total number to 4,200 - still below the limit of 4,500 set by Germany's strict parliamentary mandate. But on Thursday, the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, gave the green light under a separate mandate to deploy up to 300 more soldiers to support NATO's AWACS surveillance aircraft in Afghanistan. (Read "Afghanistan and NATO: Is Europe...
Aware of the danger, McChrystal has made the protection of civilians the central tenet of his new approach to fighting the Taliban, even going so far as to limit the use of aerial bombardment to the most extreme circumstances - a turnabout for U.S. ground forces that have grown dependent on air support. McChrystal has also declared - in a soon-to-be-released tactical directive - that soldiers should hold their fire if there is even the slightest risk of a civilian presence in the target zone. "Suppose the insurgent occupies an enemy home or village and engages you from there with...
...while being big is still an advantage - size offers a better survival cushion if food proves hard to find - there are other factors that limit how easily that trait is passed down. Coulson and his colleagues identified what they call the "young mum" factor. Sheep, unlike many other mammals, tend to have offspring quite early in life - mothers can have lambs at one-year-old, before they're fully grown. Since the size of the lambs is limited by the size of the mothers, younger mothers have smaller babies. Thanks to the milder winters, more sheep are able to survive...
...Poker (WSOP), and the Texas native has competed in all but two of them - more than anyone else in the event's history - and racked up 10 championship bracelets, tied for second all-time. On the eve of this year's "Main Event," a $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Texas Hold 'Em tournament which starts July 3, TIME caught up with Brunson to talk about how the WSOP has changed over the years...