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...teams were casing the two-story embassy. Throughout last year, mortars and rockets were intermittently fired into the area around the embassy and the hotel opposite; the insurgents who launched them clearly didn't care what building they hit. On the afternoon of Oct. 17, a line of 120-mm mortars marched across Jadriyah, falling closer and closer to the embassy, as if the mortarman were fine-tuning his coordinates. The final mortar sailed over the Australians' heads and onto the garage of a house opposite the embassy; nobody was injured. A few hours later, lights in the houses near...
...heart relaxes between beats, the pressure eases too but only to a point. That is the diastolic pressure, the second number. The force of both pressures is measured by how high a pulsing artery can push a column of mercury in a blood-pressure monitor. In general, 120 mm during a beat and 80 mm between beats are considered normal...
...troops last week, aren't fail-safe: 120 have been destroyed in combat in Iraq. Unlike M1 tanks, even beefed-up humvees can't always stop a rocket-propelled grenade or .50-cal. machine-gun bullet from killing those inside. But they are built to halt armor-piercing 7.62-mm rounds--the kind of bullets fired from AK-47s, an insurgent favorite. The roof is engineered to thwart the blast of a 155-mm artillery shell exploding overhead, and the floor is reinforced to protect passengers from a bomb or a 12-lb. mine buried in the road...
...MM..Food? is no departure from form. The production (by Metal Face Doom himself on 12 of the 15 tracks here) is direct and sample-oriented. This is the anti-crunk: trebly, chill, metallic and hyperaware. Guest appearances, a frequent crutch employed by much of current hip-hop, are mostly absent; this guy has verses to spare anyway, why clutter the track with less-skilled...
...what he does, but this isn’t his masterwork. Here his prolific release schedule works against him, as there are so many other Doom albums to compare his latest against. Virgins to his work are fully advised to check out February’s Madvillainy first. If MM..Food? is a letdown, it’s only because he has set the bar so high. Like the man says, “these metal fingers be holdin’ hot shit...