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...their way toward the factory, the vehicles turn off a paved road onto a dusty plain and struggle with the uneven terrain and fine sand. One tank gets stuck for a spell. "So much for rolling right on in," says Captain Brian Chontosh, who heads the infantrymen of India Company. But they are protected. The deep percussion of artillery impacting the target area booms through the night, sending a huge black cloud into the sky. Aerial surveillance spots a pickup truck with a mounted machine gun moving in from the west. From above comes a deep rumbling sound. "Basher took...
...sandbox. Brian had one installed under his home’s piano, so he could dig his toes into the sand while composing. He installed a tent in his study for smoking and relaxing; the only source of light inside was a small bulb that required a continual diet of coins to stay lit. He had his bandmates sing vocal parts while lying at the bottom of an empty swimming pool, “just to get that sound.” It was all very innocent and charming, and the music was brilliant...
...toll of this conflict may be indicative of an elite forming which has no real appreciation of what a war is. Not giving the educated elite at this school a chance to see war for what it is, is to bury the nation’s head in the sand. If we really want to make this place as good as it possibly can be at what it does—educating—we are going to have to grow up and accept that some things are more important than whether we make a vain stand against...
...horrified. He was supposed to ponder the tension between East and West in modern Japan, the ever-present shadows of the past in sprawling Kyoto, the sense of both fascination and alienation in a foreign land or just how a clump of white sand is supposed to signify mankind’s insignificance in the cosmos. How was stalking Japanese women supposed to demonstrate his thoughtfulness, maturity, and fitness for acceptance to an Ivy League college?! Like hell...
...resort supplies the board, and apart from a good pair of sunglasses, nothing is required except strong nerves: you can get up to 60 km/h over the fine, undisturbed sand. The sport itself is easy to master, although you'll be finding grains of sand in your pockets (and even up your nose) for days afterward. And you can leave your parka and long johns at home...