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...Increased Taliban activity in the area means patrols are more dangerous - IEDs have been placed on roads and mortar attacks are becoming more common - and essential support resources, such as helicopters, have been monopolized by Operation Medusa, NATO's main thrust against the Taliban in nearby Kandahar. That leaves troops at Maizan spending more time confined to base...
...transporting goods to the provinces have been detained. Taliban fighters have even taken control of the district center of Argandab, not far from Maizan. In Maizan and other districts, Taliban have attacked Afghan police officers and troops, while Coalition soldiers have seen nearly twice as many IEDs, ambushes and mortar attacks this summer as they did for the comparable period last year. For the moment, the Taliban have been reluctant to mount frontal assaults on the Coalition troops in Zabul - "they are afraid of the Romanians' 14 mm machine guns," says McLaughlin - but for how long...
...Townsend, head of LSUHSC's Behavioral Research Clinic, says part of the problem boils down to bricks and mortar. "We literally do not have a lot of buildings to put beds in right now," he says. Despite the physicians' best attempts to gauge the scope of the looming disaster, much is still unknown - the real suicide rate, much less how many people are even living in the city. Says Townsend, "All I know is there are a lot of people in emergency rooms all over town who aren't able to be admitted and are just kind of hanging...
...that the Bush Administration has been rather cagey about that, too. They have their own highlight reel, after all: A montage of 9/11, Colin Powell holding up a vial of anthrax, Zarqawi's death mask presented in a gilt frame on a curtained stage. There's some flashes of mortar fire, but this edit contains no footage of dead soldiers or even coffins, no images of the abuse of detainees...
...cheer?" Visitors[an error occurred while processing this directive] to Providence, an hour's drive southwest of Boston, will find many answers to that question. Think of Providence as an eminently walkable museum - bring good shoes to handle the hills and cobblestones - with exhibits built in clapboard, bricks and mortar. One must-stroll is Benefit Street, lined with colonial-era houses and grand Victorian mansions that radiate the wealth of the 1800s, when Providence was a jewelry and textile center. There's good people watching here, too: Providence is home to the liberal bastion (and the I-can-be-funkier...