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Most of Iraq's front-line troops hunkered down behind minefields and barbed wire along the 138-mile Saudi-Kuwait border, awaiting what Baghdad obviously expected to be the main allied thrust. Coalition troops did in fact initially concentrate in front of them. But in the last 16 days before the attack, more than 150,000 American, British and French troops moved to the west, as far as 300 miles inland from the gulf, setting up bases across the border from an area of southern Iraq that was mostly empty desert. Part of that allied force was to drive straight...
Between 4 a.m. and 6 a.m., allied forces jumped off at selected points all along the 300-mile line. Though Hollywood has long pictured the desert as a place of eternal burning sunshine and total aridity, the attack began in a lashing rain that turned the sand into muddy goo. The first troops through were wearing bulky chemical-protective garb, in keeping with the allied conviction that Saddam would use poison gas right from the beginning. In fact, the Iraqis never fired their chemical weapons...
...there is no greater place for those with the "shop till you drop" attitude than Kittery, a town that is nothing less than the Mecca of factory outlets. In an utterly disgusting display of commercialism and poor community planning, more than 14 malls dot a three-mile section of Route...
...Caribbean dwarf dog shark to the 18-m (60-ft.) whale shark -- the world's biggest fish -- they boast keen intelligence and some of the sharpest senses in the ocean. Many of the 350 species are capable of hearing a wriggling fish up to a mile away, and most can smell the merest trace of blood in the ocean. The shark's eyes work like night-vision goggles, seeing well in dark water...
...missiles are falling apart before they even reach their targets. More than 70 Scuds have been launched so far, and lately they're breaking up while heading toward their destinations. U.S. military men say sloppy Iraqi workmanship is at fault. The basic Soviet- built Scud-B has a 180-mile range, not enough to hit Israel or Saudi cities from Iraq. So the Iraqis have welded on liquid-fuel boosters to produce the Al Abbas (range: 540 miles) and the Al Hussein (390). But the welds have been so hastily done that the missiles have been literally falling apart under...