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Taliban soldiers who had thoughts of fighting on were quickly dissuaded by the ruthless force and pinpoint precision of U.S. air power. The Pentagon's most celebrated tactic was its deployment of small groups of special-ops commandos to ride horseback with Northern Alliance forces and call in air strikes using handheld lasers and target-spotting binoculars. The combination of high-tech gadgetry, battlefield savvy and an increased use of precision-guided munitions made American power irresistible. "The bombs had a big effect," says Wahid Ahmed, 18, a Pakistani who fought with the Taliban in Kunduz and now languishes...
...painful place in his memory. "There's a reason they call it break-bone fever," says McGirk, who contracted the virus in New Delhi and suffered for three weeks. "You feel like there's this deep, painful itching happening inside your bones. You're on this horrible roller-coaster ride of hot spells and chills, like you're being shaken around. It just racks your body...
...Millions of others are being taken on the same ride. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), dengue infects more than 100 million people a year?and the mosquito-borne sickness is on the rise. Once confined to tropical regions like Southeast Asia, 100 countries are now classified as dengue risk areas, up from nine prior to 1970. "Dengue is being seen in places it hasn't been seen before," says Dr. John Simon, a tropical disease specialist in Hong Kong, where a furor over the fever has been roiling local newspapers since the first locally contracted case was reported...
...Bronowski more elegantly explains, the move looks kind of like an eagle soaring. Players can alter the direction of the rock by curling their wrist left or right, while their teammates assist as well by sweeping the ice in front of the traveling rock for a nice, smooth ride...
...wider Arab world, deepening tensions between governments traditionally supportive of the U.S. and their increasingly anti-American citizenry. U.S. planners will certainly take Tuesday's incident as a warning of what may lie ahead if terrorist groups - whether or not they're operationally linked with al-Qaeda - seek to ride that anti-American sentiment by harassing U.S. forces in their staging areas around Iraq, and beyond...