Word: roading
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...rifle and the staff sergeant who walks up to the device and tries to turn it off. Today there's a report of one on a Baghdad street. Mission simple to define - "Let them know that if they're gonna leave a bomb on the side of the road," the staff sergeant says, "we're gonna blow up their f---in' road" - but way harder to accomplish. As he walks toward the contaminated area wearing a heavily insulated space suit on a 130-degree day, he catches the corner-eyesight of a man about to use a cell phone...
Moontide and Road House, both starring Ida Lupino; Fox Film Noir series; out now The B-movie Bette Davis, Ida Lupino could play waifs or wantons, but she always gave her characters the wit and glamour required to wrestle with their fates. In Moontide (1942), she's the last hope for French icon Jean Gabin; in Road House (1948), she's the torch singer hired by punk Richard Widmark: two solid noirs starring one classy dame...
...inclined to increase spending, throwing money at the problem isn't the answer. "There is no strategic plan," says former Senator Bill Frist, a heart and lung surgeon before he entered politics. Frist voted to double NIH funds in 1998 but wouldn't recommend it again without a better road map. There are numerous federal agencies that cover cancer, for instance, and less than complete coordination among them...
Just a few miles up the road, Keith Luke, 54, stood atop his boat, Miss Brandy. He built the boat 15 year ago and named it after his daughter, who is now 36 years old. Luke is portly, with a thick beard, and on this afternoon wore a faded red t-shirt with a kind of self-made v-neck. A bit of hair poked out. Despite the warnings about Gustav, Luke holed himself up in Miss Brandy, along with his deckhand, Charlie. "Things was bad," Luke says of Gustav. "We had a lot of wind...
...Lieberman's weird, winding road to St. Paul is a story for another day, but a lot of it comes down to the fact that he and John McCain believed the U.S. should do more in Iraq at a time when most of America - and nearly all of the Congressional Democrats - wanted to get out. Lieberman tried to use his credibility as a former standard-bearer for the other party as a lever to peel McCain free of the Bush legacy. After dozens of speeches last week in Denver evoking "Bush-McCain," Lieberman offered this: "Trust me: God only made...