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...insurgents. More recently, the U.S. has tried to get Nicaragua to destroy its remaining stockpile of surface-to-air missiles, allegedly out of fear they'll fall into terrorist hands. But Nicaragua has insisted it will hold on to its 400 SAM-7s for strategic defense purposes - and amusement park photo ops. (Read "Nicaragua: Where Every Day is Christmas...
...After posing for the picture, Victor shrugs the clunky SAM-7 off his shoulder with the help of a Nicaraguan soldier, before scampering off to check out some other anti-aircraft artillery on display at the Sandinista government's recently inaugurated "Happy Children Amusement Park." At a nearby military tent, dozens of other children and adults merrily grab at a generous selection of unloaded assault weapons of different makes and calibers, and casually take aim at passersby who move hurriedly toward other park rides. Some of the teenagers knowledgeably slide and lock the bolt handles on their assault rifles with...
...great country aground and shackling its potential. Some 8 million people listen to Beck's radio program, and this year his Fox News Channel show became required viewing for the right. Predictably, he drew white-hot hatred from liberals and even some fellow libertarians: the creators of South Park spoofed him in a hilarious November episode in which the fat Cartman played Beck. This time, Beck didn't weep. Instead, he laughed along and then noted, accurately, that the show had also taken on Jesus Christ...
Declining to sit down with TIME in Google's office in Menlo Park, Calif., the Google guys are making applications that will one day turn the human race into a bunch of fat idiots, subservient to robots, while they take all our money. (I am seriously mad at them for not talking to me.) (See the 50 best websites...
...world's collective psyche. What's less well known is that 200,000 people, including 100,000 civilians, died during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945, the biggest campaign of the Asia-Pacific War. The Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum, peace- museum.pref.okinawa.jp, is located in the eponymous park on the southern tip of Okinawa Island and showcases poignant exhibits. One section covers the lead-up to WW II, another the postwar period when Okinawa was transformed by U.S. military occupation...