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...concerned that the eight-wheel battle wagons are vulnerable to the insurgents' favorite weapon--the primitive but ubiquitous rocket-propelled grenade (RPG). So more than 100 soldiers and contractors have been working virtually around the clock, bolting a 5,200-lb. metal cage resembling a big green catcher's mask around each vehicle. The cage's metal slats are designed to detonate an incoming RPG some 18 in. away from the Stryker, minimizing the round's ability to bore through its skin and injure those inside. So why didn't the Army anticipate such a problem? It did: future versions...
...must mention, just in passing, another of cigarettes' metaphorical potencies. "Smo-kin'!" exclaims Jim Carrey's frenetic alter ego in "The Mask"; and we know he is referring to a different -king. Smoking is, at heart, oral gratification. There is, shall we say, a certain sexual implication in putting our lips around a long, thin object, ingesting its essence into the mouth, perhaps swallowing it, then expelling it. Put this way, the act of smoking is, literally, a blow job. And the ritual "smoke after sex" - is this not the reward for all the exertion of coupling? For some smokers...
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...capital will have to live with the odor and the sight of black sludge beside homes and offices. Walee, 54, a shopkeeper in downtown Bangkok, installed a row of plants on the cement arches that span the klong next to her store. In bloom, she says, the flowers mask the toxic mess. "When I look at the flowers, I see the klong of my youth," she says, "when it was clear and filled with fish and when my mother scolded me for spending too much time swimming...
...World has been advertised as a balls-out action movie; it seems like an unofficial sequel to Gladiator with cannonballs instead of lions. The truth is, although it stars Russell Crowe as a British sea captain named Lucky Jack Aubrey, it is as close to Gladiator as The Mask was to The Truman Show...