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...attend a four-day Navy commando training camp at a military base in southwest Korea. Kim easily dealt with hiking along an open sewage ditch, sprinting with a car tire strapped to her back, floating for half an hour in frigid ocean waters and rolling commando-style in mud. But when coaches blindfolded her in the dead of night, took her to a crematorium and told her to fetch bones from the ovens, she almost lost it. Says the tanned Olympian, hard-muscled from using bows with a bone-snapping 17 kg of draw weight: "I cried...
...southern Afghanistan, her Taliban neighbors all drive new Toyota Hi-Lux pickups and Land Cruisers, flashy symbols of their new power. But one night three weeks ago, Barasna heard the slamming of car doors and the crying of sleepy children. She peered out into the lane with its high mud walls and saw that every Taliban commander in the area was fleeing the city with his family. Barasna knew why. It was Sept. 11, and on the radio she and her doctor husband had heard about the suicide hijackers who crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon...
...world's most inscrutable regimes, fanatically loyal to one of the world's most mysterious leaders. The devout Omar, self-declared "Amir-ul-Momineen," or Commander of the Faithful, has lived in seclusion in a Kandahar compound ever since a 1999 bomb killed 40 people near his old mud-brick home in his former village. He permits no photographs and rarely appears in public. He is said to be 5 ft. 10 in. tall, heavily bearded and imposing despite his stitched-shut eye. He is thought to confer personally with perhaps eight or 10 men whom he has known...
Powell: As the fall proceeds, I'll have the opportunity to give more speeches. I was in the newspaper two, three times a day speaking out on everything from returning to Vietnam to meetings with the Chinese to North Korea. And your colleagues were as happy as pigs in mud, filing twice a day. So come on, give me a break...
...states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal and ends by leading the walker down into the fearsome gorge of the mighty Sutlej River as it rushes down from Tibet. The hike can only be done in early summer after the snows melt and before the monsoon turns the mountains to mud. On the other side of the pass, trekkers must traverse a glacier after being linked together with ropes. We safely slid the last 200 m to the bottom, but our stores, which the porters launched after us, smashed into the rocks below with a crunch that could only mean...