Word: muscularity
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...them in return? An honest debate and some tough questions that soldiers by definition cannot outwardly ask or answer. We should be asking straight questions: Do we have enough troops? Is the war winnable? Should we redeploy to safer bases, or should we be a more muscular presence on the streets of Iraq? "Emily was just a problem solver," one of her West Point friends told me. Iraq may have defied solution so far, but we owe her a continued, honest effort. For a longer version, go to time.com where this was the most popular story of the week
...with the larger tragedy beyond my own: stolen youth. Specialist Hilario Bermanis, 21, had been built like a fullback when he left his home in Micronesia to join the Army. Now he was hunched in a wheelchair, a thick neck and broad shoulders the only reminder of his once muscular body. He had lost his left hand and both legs above the knee to a rocket-propelled grenade in Baghdad...
...enables these feats is the cuff - three flat tendons that blend together like a thick leathery hood covering a bald man's head - the head in this case being the smooth cartilage-covered ball at the top of the humerus or arm bone. The cuff's unique tendons apply muscular forces which stabilize and greatly strengthen the movement of your arm. (Remember tendons are the attachments of muscles to bone - they pull...
...Castano's message to me was curt: get on a plane to a town across the gulf from Panama, and someone will meet you. Sure enough, a photographer and I landed on an airstrip cut in a cane field, and a very muscular Colombian escorted us to his four-wheel drive vehicle. There was another passenger: a glamorous woman whose arms were so laden with gold and emerald jewelry she could barely lift them. She was silent the entire journey, pensively tracing raindrops on the car window with her red lacquered fingernails...
...wanted to make sure they understand it's going to kick your ass. It's not fun to be hungry on Day 24. Hunger does not discriminate. MUSCULAR MUSIC...