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...streetlight - but he has much to learn about the effect of this war on today's young men. One vet has drowned his wife's dog, and later drowns her in a bathtub. Hank has also hears that Mike had been called Doc by his comrades. Why? Because, on patrol in Iraq, Doc would "stick his hand in some hadji's wound and say, 'Does that hurt?' And the hadji would say yes. Then he'd stick it in again and say, 'Does that hurt?' That's how he got the name...
...quite sure what it does, but in Sydney right now APEC is impossible to ignore. For its sake guards patrol the Harbour Bridge, dummy motorcades race through the streets, zoo animals are being moved to an island in the harbor so VIP wives can view them in peace, and a 3-m-high wall is going up around the Opera House. Even Sydneysiders who've missed the preparations know that the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum Leaders' Week, which runs from Sept. 2-9, will be giving them a public holiday. It's the biggest event the country has held...
...Border Patrol's New Look...
...mile (1.6 km) from the Pakistan border, part of a new program to embed U.S. soldiers with Afghan companies to ease the transition to full independence. It's rough work. For the first month of their deployment, the troops had no showers. Snow, mud and rain dogged every patrol, and landslides caused the collapse of a couple of barracks and a chow hall. The post's remote location meant that food supplies flown in by helicopter were sometimes delayed--and when they did come, half the vegetables had already rotted. Even the camp dogs, a white Lab named Musharraf...
...reports of local outbreaks of violence that his men cannot respond to. "Every time we leave here they know, and they will attack this place," he says. "We've asked for help and we had the Australian soldiers come here, but they went around and then they left. They patrol in helicopters, but you can't catch anyone from a helicopter. You have to get out." Down the road from the barbed-wire-fenced police compound, the town's main thoroughfares are blackened with the remains of burnt tires and littered with broken glass and rocks the size of tennis...