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...high spirits and blithe spirits are relentless. Hardly have the campers arrived than their dorm is smothered in rainbowed posters bubbling over with red hearts, pictures of Garfield and slogans championing both competition and community. MAARCHE MAJORETTES WANT YOU TO HAVE AN AWESOME TIME! DEBS ARE MOOR FUN. LUV THE DESERT. And even before the maiden cheer session, six-, seven-, ten-packs of enthusiasts have clustered together in bunches, and begun punching the air, boogying, dervishing and screeching out the cries of their particular tribe...
...From within the trauma wards, Landstuhl's doctors and nurses have had a close-up view of the war's mayhem, almost as intense as in Iraq itself. After being wheeled through Landstuhl's doors one snowy morning in late January, Brent Jurgersen, 42, a first sergeant from Low Moor, Iowa, was rushed into an operating room, where surgeons amputated his left leg at the knee. The day before, as Jurgersen led his Humvee through a village near Samarra...
...like your ordinary buddy road movie, with self- discovery lurking like a state trooper around every bend. It has two chase scenes and a car crash. But the film, scripted by Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor and directed by Payne, is in no way ordinary. Since Miles and Jack moor in the Santa Ynez Valley to sample the local vintages, it's a sedentary road movie. Instead of the usual cantina of eccentrics, just two significant characters cross their path: Maya (Virginia Madsen), a waitress, and Stephanie (Sandra Oh), a wine pourer...
...could the Allies rely on superior technology to win the day, though being able to listen in on coded German communications certainly helped. There was no Kevlar; there were no nightscopes, no cruise missiles or stealth fighters. Instead, Allied engineers invented artificial harbors to tow across the channel and moor once the beaches were won; sawtooth steel tusks were attached to the front of tanks to cut through the Normandy hedgerows; paratroopers used the little clickers that sound like crickets to find one another in the dark. Most of their radios and 60% of their supplies didn't survive...
...encounter dozens of locks, often close together, as in the impressive flight of 16 built in 1810 to climb Caen Hill near Devizes, Wiltshire, pictured above. In traditional canal boats that rent from $1,160 a week, you can chug merrily along, do some lazy fishing and nature watching, moor at waterside pubs and enjoy the delights of great small cities such as Bath and Bristol. Check out sallyboats.ltd.uk...