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...pollution-free wind farms proliferate from California to northern Germany, a trend driven by tax breaks and international concern about global warming, homeowners are worried about the effects on real estate values. "Resistance to wind turbines is inversely proportional to the distance between the individual turbine and the nearest McMansion," says Carol Overland, a Northfield, Minn., attorney who works on wind issues...
...just like those party-favor games, the pen’s game proved to be too difficult and frustrating, and soon we jumped on the pen shouting, “Who’s smart enough to solve a maze now?” We then killed the nearest balloon animal-maker with an arm we ripped off of a clown. It was very mature...
...yells Turner while radioing for a medevac helicopter. The five soldiers inside the flaming humvee, although burned and slashed by flying shrapnel, have survived. But the vehicle is still rolling straight toward a field of mines. The soldiers haul themselves out of the burning vehicle and stagger to the nearest humvee. Sergeant Jeremy Gates, 25, grabs a fire extinguisher to try dousing the flames before the 900 rounds of ammunition inside the humvee start cooking. It's of little use. Within seconds, lethal fireworks are rocketing everywhere like miniature suns, and Turner and his men run for cover...
...maws of greedy self-service gas pumps is, at least in theory, possible. It's a romantic, enchanting notion: walking and paddling great distances without a bulky wallet in one's back pocket. I doubt I'll ever try it, though. In a state where a visit to the nearest Home Depot can take a whole weekend and require a motel stay, a person wants a large and gutsy vehicle capable of cruising uphill at 90 m.p.h. and allowing its driver to yawn and stretch his arms while his passengers doze or play Scrabble in the backseat...
...toward the group from behind. Fearing the worst, Yeager fired into the car, hitting two people. Mark thinks they were civilians, but Yeager is certain they were "a clean-up crew of insurgents, coming to finish us off." American troops arrived and escorted Hunt, Ahmelman and Surette to the nearest military medical center. Hunt and Ahmelman were dead on arrival; Surette was flown to a Baghdad hospital, where he died undergoing treatment. Three months later the state coroner in Ahmelman's home state of Victoria conducted a brief inquest into his death. While he did not examine ERSM's work...