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...frustration he felt last March when he walked into the Emergency Operations Center at Fort Campbell and listened in on a battle occurring at that moment across the world: the early stages of Operation Anaconda. The soldiers of the division's 3rd Brigade had walked into a hornet's nest and clearly did not have the firepower they needed. By the end of the day, the division commander had ordered Jim and the rest of his battalion to pack their aircraft and head to Afghanistan. Ninety-six hours later, all his aircraft had been taken apart, loaded onto cargo planes...
You’ve been spending so much time in Lamont that you’ve made a nest in the Farnsworth Room, and your fellow ’round-the-clockers are looking pretty hott right now. But how do you break the ice with your bookworm beauty? Fifteen Minutes has a few suggestions to help you go Lamonster on that hottie. . . 1) I hear Lamont is the new Widener stacks. 2) You’re reading Habermas? I’d love to colonize your private spheres. 3) We should probably find the nearest exit; there?...
...sing yet more stanzas of "Spring, Spring, Spring," a Mercer-Gene DePaul number from "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" that shows the lyricist at his most puckish. Consider these couplets that lead up to the title in five verses: "Ma Nature's lyrical / With her yearly miracle ? Each nest is twittering, / They're all baby-sittering ... Sun's getting' shinery / To spotlight the finery ... Even the catamount / Is nonplussed at that amount ... This home my momma's, I'll / Soon have my own domicile...
...AUSTRALIA: The view of the Pacific Ocean from the 1,500-m Point Lookout platform is just one of the joys awaiting hikers in New England National Park (nationalparks.nsw.gov.au)?an ecological wonderland of soaring cliffs and World Heritage rain forest. If time is limited, the 2.5-km Eagle's Nest circuit, along the edge of a sheer drop, offers adrenaline in a jiffy...
...fine, adjusting to change and even increasing their numbers--at least in the bird counts. Some hummingbirds, for example, that used to winter in Mexico don't bother to make the trip anymore because the U.S. is now warm enough all year long. A number of migratory species that nest in northeastern forests have rebounded because that part of the country is reforesting as agriculture declines. Bluebirds are thriving, says Butcher, because bluebird lovers have been setting up nesting boxes for them for the past half-century...