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...Nagoya exhibition is this: when the show is over in September and all 15 million expected visitors have gone home, the government will raze the expo, recycle the construction materials and reinstate the children's park. Other former expo host cities may proudly flout their rusting space needles and rocket-ride pavilions on postcards as reminders of glory days past, but not Nagoya. This city is moving too fast to be anchored down by white elephants-in-waiting. After all, in 30 years we may all be breathing oxygenated nanobubbles on our way to Neptune...
...three men stepped out of an alley and fired rocket-propelled grenades, splitting apart the vehicle. In the brief moment he was conscious, he saw the blinding flash of the explosion and the dead body of his gunner sprawled across the back seat. Days later, doctors in Iraq e-mailed surgeons at Walter Reed to say that Jurgersen had flatlined twice in the field hospital in Balad, before being flown to Landstuhl. Like many other soldiers who've landed here during past two years, it was not Jurgersen's first evacuation. Last June, he survived a bullet that pierced...
Every war mutilates in its own way, leaves its distinctive marks. In this war, unlike battles past, only 16% of injuries were caused by gunshots, according to a study; 69% were from explosions--the roadside booby traps, the car bombs, the rocket-propelled grenades. The vast majority of injuries are to arms and legs left vulnerable even as body armor is protecting vital organs. The amputation rate of 6% of wounded soldiers is twice that of earlier wars. But in addition, doctors are seeing new injuries, some of them inconspicuous compared with the shredded flesh of bombing victims. Traumatic brain...
...just stare at each other and just compliment each other on the fact that they're so attractive. I had this idea of a not very bright celebrity couple, but it's not about Nick and Jessica. I don't know them. They might secretly be Rhodes scholar rocket scientists...
...doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out which path was more difficult...