Word: patrollers
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...Capa's work is grittier and more spontaneous, his D-Day shots unmatchable. But to some minds Khaldei - although unschooled and dismissive of any claim to being an "artist" - may have had the aesthetic edge, with his intuitive sense of theatrical composition. It turns the silhouette of a patrol setting off in the cold midnight sun of the Barents Sea into a grim ballet of war. The show's co-curator, Ernst Volland, says the photographer's aesthetic instincts may have been formed by Russian avant-garde revolutionary art of the 1920s - the paintings of Rodchenko and films of Vertov...
Corporal Steve Wardrobe holds up a globe of freshly sugared fried dough, and uses a syringe from his combat medical kit to inject it with raspberry jam. There's no better cure for a rough day out on patrol, he has learned out here in the wilds of Afghanistan's Helmand province, than a fresh jelly doughnut. "These go down well with the lads," he says. The lads, in this instance, being the medics of D-company, 2nd Battalion of Britain's Parachute Regiment, stationed here at Forward Operating Base Zeebrugge -and the few groupies who have caught on that...
...wrecked when we get back from patrol that it does a world of good to kick back and eat a doughnut - it's almost like normal life," says Private Matt Collins, as he fries a fresh batch in an empty artillery can. The makeshift stove is fueled with wood salvaged from packing crates. Bread rolls stuffed with canned cheese and chilies are laid out on a stretcher to rise. The flour is sifted through a mosquito net. Once the doughnuts are done the bread rolls will be next; they are closed in a metal box that once held illumination rounds...
...This particular Sunday is to be a day of rest. The men have just returned from a 13-hour patrol that began at 1 a.m. with a difficult trudge through waterlogged fields, and ended under the blazing sun, searching a compound for a weapons cache. Besides, says Wardrobe, "We didn't get a Saturday night out, so we have to make up for it somehow...
...major crime-fighting initiative has been to saturate crime-tossed neighborhoods, like South Austin on Chicago's West Side, with police officers. That's where several people, including a 16-year-old, were shot at a party on the evening of April 19. Now, police officers are assigned to patrol South Austin's tree-lined streets during the day - on foot and bike. By night, those patrols are to be reinforced with SWAT units and helicopters equipped with motion sensors. The saturation strategy, Weis argues, makes it easier to predict crime, and respond when they occur. "We're trying...