Word: sanding
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...beginning to fear that our guide is leading us astray. Earlier in the day we embarked on a private-jeep tour of the main attraction in southern Vietnam's remote coastal town of Phan Thiet: large, golden sand dunes whipped into submission by swirling gusts of wind. Now, instead of heading back to our hotel with its pristine, palm-lined beach, our guide has us speeding out of town, beyond the cozy cove that shelters the locals' colorful fishing boats?beyond, in fact, any sign of civilization. Where are we going...
...would mistake these camps for three-star hotels. Nothing is easy here. Blinding, unseasonably fierce dust storms are turning the sky apocalyptic orange. The wind and sand blast the skin and destroy tents. Rain turns the desert into sludge. Troops wash their clothes in cardboard boxes lined with plastic bags, but socks and underwear can go a fortnight between washings. "We're not getting paid to smell pretty," says Lance Corporal Jason Wilebski, 19, queuing for a haircut. In these cramped quarters, tempers chafe. Some soldiers are not coping at all. One young man shot himself in the foot...
...joking hides a creeping frustration among American troops that diplomatic wrangling may keep them sitting in the sand for months. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice suggested last week that one reason to invade sooner rather than later was that "uncertainty is unfair" to American allies in the region and to U.S. and British troops massing on the Iraqi border. While war opponents and even some proponents considered the argument offensive, it found traction here. The young troops who would be first into Iraq from the south are training to achieve peak physical and mental condition in the first few weeks...
...bother me too, sometimes, especially when they drive Hummers and other mutant monstrosities of the sport-utility class that have gone and ruined things for the rest of us. I understand that when people buy SUVs, they often delude themselves about how they will use them, imagining wind-whipped sand dunes and alpine lakes. But why in the world would someone need a Hummer? An armed incursion into downtown Tampa...
Eight hundred miles north of Montana, in upper Saskatchewan, sprawls a land of vast evergreen forests laced with lakes and streams, windblown sand ridges--and the world's richest deposits of uranium. From this Canadian wilderness, centered on the Athabasca Basin, fully a quarter of the world's annual supply of uranium is unearthed, most of it from a single mine called McArthur River. In a world increasingly concerned about the flow and price of oil from the Middle East, demand for the mine's controversial product is quietly rising...