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...Iraq. Unlike M1 tanks, even beefed-up humvees can't always stop a rocket-propelled grenade or .50-cal. machine-gun bullet from killing those inside. But they are built to halt armor-piercing 7.62-mm rounds--the kind of bullets fired from AK-47s, an insurgent favorite. The roof is engineered to thwart the blast of a 155-mm artillery shell exploding overhead, and the floor is reinforced to protect passengers from a bomb or a 12-lb. mine buried in the road...
...absence of Sameer Narang, who’s stuck in New York, Xuan observes that he is “the one Asian dude” at the table. Joyfully, he performs what was referred to in the seventh grade as “raising the roof...
...repeating chorus of “take a chance, you stupid ho.” It’s followed by “Rich Girl,” an excruciating cover of “If I Were a Rich Man” from Fiddler on the Roof. In case you don’t remember, there was a techno song a few years back that was more or less the same exact thing. Stefani’s version is just as annoying as that one was, and is far less original to boot...
After trailing for the final 15 minutes of the game, the Crimson blew the roof off Lavietes, sabotaging a four-point URI lead in the final minute...
...leaving 150 missing. Soldiers slogged through mud to deliver body bags and lime to cover decomposing corpses awaiting burial. In the province of Rizal, the Quizan family's house was flooded with water, but Roberto Quizan and his three sons and daughter managed to clamber onto the corrugated-tin roof. While waiting to be rescued, the youngest son, 12-year-old Roberto, got entangled in a live power line. His father tried to save him, and then the two other boys rushed to help. All four were electrocuted. "I've lost all the males in my family," sobbed daughter...