Word: mortars
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...education. BabyMint.com lists about 200 retailers that rebate money into either a Coverdell Educational Savings Account or a state 529 college savings plan. At Upromise.com you get cash back into a 529 by registering credit, debit and grocery-club cards and then spending both online and at brick-and-mortar stores. At EdExpress.com you can save for any education costs--not just college--but you are charged a $24.95 fee annually. No kids? NestEggz.com funnels rebated money into a mutual fund, individual retirement account or money market...
...vehicles and Abrams tanks. At any given time, several groups of vehicles are on patrol or conducting raids, raising a huge dust cloud and a god-awful din. The base abuts Baghdad's most hostile districts, Khadra, Ghazalia and Abu Ghraib, which makes it a target of almost daily mortar attacks. Those areas are known to harbor al-Qaeda cells and secret bombmaking factories...
...capturing the nearby city of Caen. The hardest fighting of all raged throughout the day on the fifth beach, Omaha. It was a relatively narrow strand of shoreline overshadowed by 100-ft. cliffs. Troops trying to land there found themselves in a horrifying position, vulnerable to machine-gun and mortar fire from above. The only route out lay through four ravines carved by the wind and water through the cliffs. American soldiers were bewildered, their officers were confused, and their comrades were lying dead all around, in the water and on the beach. In the chaos, there were not even...
Outside, toward evening, the fighting has stopped, and the gunmen gather to swap war stories. One slightly injured fighter stands in the back alley that leads to al-Sadr's Najaf headquarters. "A mortar round burst right by us, but no one was seriously injured, thanks be to God," he says. As he speaks, a crowd carrying a coffin draped in an Iraqi flag marches past the shrine. The first "martyr" of the day is being buried...
...underground illustrator--graphic artists like Michael Lau and Pete Fowler, and produced in limited quantities. "They are as much art as they are toys," says Paul Budnitz, owner of Kidrobot, an urban-toy boutique with outlets in San Francisco and New York City. Budnitz, whose two brick-and-mortar stores opened within a year of each other in response to his highly successful website, kidrobot.com will open two more stores later this year. Urban-toy prices range from affordable to Are-you-kidding-me? Kidrobot's prices start at $4, for things like mini-figures and capsule toys. From...