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...sought out the Thai stunt coordinator and low-budget action director Panna Ritthikrai, who took him on as a prot?g?. He went to a gymnastics college and soon found work as a stunt man in local and international films, including 1997's Mortal Kombat 2. Then he and Ritthikrai started devising their own stunts inspired by muay boran, a more elegant and traditional form of Thai boxing that resembles kung fu. Jaa traveled the countryside talking to the few remaining old masters of muay boran, rediscovering more than 100 long-abandoned moves. Ritthikrai and Jaa filmed the actor's best...
From Fitch, spurred to invent the steamboat by a mortal need for speed, to Turner, driven by the thrill of risk and winning, American inventors and innovators during the U.S.'s march to economic dominance in the past two centuries have thrived in difficult--even deadly--conditions. In They Made America (Little, Brown; 496 pages), author, journalist and immigrant Harold Evans celebrates the near mythic lives of 70 unique thinkers who beat long odds to realize a dream and, in their day, to improve life for the masses...
...Mortal Blow? After the March 11 terror attacks in Madrid were blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA - but turned out to be the work of a group thought to have links with al-Qaeda - it was comforting to think ETA might be a spent force. But despite a series of sweeping arrests in the past decade, cross-border raids in Spain and France this month uncovered evidence that the organization is far from broken. Last week Spanish forces arrested five ETA members after Oct. 3 sweeps netted 18 Basque militants, and found enormous caches of arms, munitions and nearly...
...course is vastly different. It takes us two long days to traverse the gorge, from which we emerge bruised, tired and electrified. It's here that we truly slough off our normal lives; we might be journalists, public servants and businessmen out there, but in here we're hopelessly mortal, relying on our guides, ourselves and our next slippery foothold to get us through. Pat and our other guide, Dan, warn us that a fall here almost certainly means death, even as they have to leap onto wet rocks themselves to unsnag the rafts. We pull our little craft...
...ministry $172 apiece. The Ministry of Defense has never bought "coffins" at $172 apiece. The need was felt for aluminum caskets by the Indian army for some years, but the urgency arose during the Kargil conflict in 1999 when the government decided for the first time to send the mortal remains of the soldiers who died in the battlefield to their families for last rites. Till then, the bodies were cremated or buried near the place of death. The Ministry of Defense gave the army clearance to purchase the caskets from a U.S. company at a cost...