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...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...
...statues point east, but the next war would come to Basra from the south, the scene of Iraq's humiliation in 1991, when U.S.-led forces drove the Iraqi military from Kuwait. A sand barrier and trench constructed by Kuwait after the Gulf War to prevent infiltrators from crossing over now separates Iraq from Kuwait, and beyond it are the massing ranks of the invasion force. As he peers into the distance in the midday haze, vegetable farmer Shadat Dafeh Hamed mumbles, "I can't see them, but I know they are there." Hamed, 70, lives closer to the enemy...
...saihan law says nothing about used books. So Sakamoto decided to restore those to mint condition and sell them cheap. Bookoff purchases books from customers typically for 10% of their cover price. Then employees clean the covers and sand the page edges (using machines Sakamoto designed) to give them a clean, unthumbed finish. The books hit the shelves at half the original price. Any book not sold after three months is slashed to 100 yen (about 85?). Sellers of new books, along with publishers and wholesalers, are powerless to fight back. By law they can't cut their own prices...
...send anything special that you want to keep forever, First Sergeant Robert Wilson advises at a meeting Wednesday night. He explains that before his unit went into action in Desert Storm, the soldiers bulldozed an eight-foot trench in the sand, tossed in every piece of personal gear they owned and set it on fire. That way captured soldiers would not have family photos or letters that could be used against them by interrogators--and it also insured that any space in their vehicles that could hold water, ammo or food would not be wasted on a Walkman...
...although it no longer smells like a barbarian outhouse, it will take a lot more than a serious scrub to save the ancient fortress. Time has finally caught up with the jewel of Rajasthan. The great, golden sand castle shimmering across the Thar Desert is on the brink of collapse. For centuries its sandstone walls have housed what is still one of the world's few inhabited forts, and is home to some 2,000 people. But since its heyday in the 16th and 17th centuries, when it was the last filling station for colossal caravans traveling the Silk Route...