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...weeklong trip, we travel this new road, going over mountains to A Luoi-where the main branch of the old trail veers off into Laos-and then take Road 49, a tortuously winding piece of the old trail, east to Hué. As we descend, I hear a mighty roar. It's Mr. Truong. He's finally figured out the gears on the Minsk and he's grinning as he passes us all. He is still wearing the helmet. But in my mind's eye, I picture his combover flying triumphantly in the wind, coasting down the road into Vietnam...
...wrenching tableau. A brutalized Jesus is displayed by Roman Governor Pontius Pilate, who announces derisively, "Ecce Homo," behold the man. A mob, ostensibly made up of Jesus' fellow Jews, responds with a bloodthirsty roar. They fill a massive courtyard; there must be a thousand of them...
...With a roar and a rolling shockwave that shattered windows and trembled rooftops across northern Baghdad this morning the grinding guerrilla war entered a new and more lethal phase. Shortly before 11 am local time a bomb in a Coaster minivan outside the Jordanian embassy detonated with horrific force, unleashing a fireball that incinerated a car full of people passing by. Those in front of the building were killed instantly, the clothes wrenched from their bodies and flung in tufts like singed confetti, their flesh torched. More than 50 others inside the compound or in the family homes nearby were...
...huge, wide-bodied jets made seemingly impossible turns on the famous, curved approach to Runway 13. Aircraft banked an improbable 90?, almost skimming the tops off the neighboring apartment blocks. The scene was straight out of sci-fi: huge, metallic birds coming home to nest with a demented roar...
...discriminating, there is plenty of software you can buy that will help you filter your own mail. There's still no such thing as a 100% spam-free In box, but if you're willing to make the effort, you can keep the e-noise down to a dull roar...