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...ambush just outside town. One minute, he and his partners were cruising on motorcycles toward an elementary school; the next, they were getting fired at by strangers who then vanished into the forest like ghosts. Now, at the once languid station where patrolmen used to doze in the midday heat, officers cradle their assault rifles and eye every visitor with tense suspicion. "We're all pretty spooked," says Marohsae...
...endless rounds of sit-ups and push-ups, climb into a boxing ring to battle their fellow junior officers. The Acid Test is the most grueling exercise of all. The academy is in the Himalayan foothills north of Islamabad, but the weather is still brutal: 95[degree]F by midday. First the cadets have to traverse a mountain carrying logs on their shoulders. Then they run nine miles with full gear to an obstacle course that forces them to swing over ditches, haul themselves over walls and slosh through an artificial swamp fed by a guy hosing water from...
...don’t share because not everyone believes—as I do deep in my gut—that one or more of New York’s suspension bridges will be the next target of the forces of terror the nation finds itself battling. Consequently, this midday walk—on July 5th, no less, during one of the government’s vague terror warnings—seems almost stupidly risky. It’s like streaking through midtown naked. Cheap thrills in New York...
...army buddy Rich Galli, who met each other in Italy, where they were mountain-warfare instructors. Galli was infantry and Fairchild artillery--as were Lewis and Clark, respectively. Soon we are skirting 10-ft. snowdrifts, now and again postholing into a soft patch up to our thighs. By midday we crest the ridgeline, where we can start to make out the vast wild expanse that stretches away on all sides. To our north are 1.8 million acres of the Clearwater National Forest, to the south are 1.3 million acres of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness area. The skies have cleared...
...season. And starting in June, rates at resorts like the plush Miramonte fall from as much as $350 a night in peak season to just $89 a night. There is a catch: average temperatures hover at 105[degrees] and can go as high as 122[degrees] midday. But locals swear the golf courses are still playable in the morning. Families can spend the heat of the afternoon enjoying one of several deluxe water parks or exploring the Palm Springs Desert Museum, famous for its exhibits on local Native American art and history. A more unexpected way to beat the heat...