Word: shells
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...could be the end of an era. Than again, it could also be just the impetus George Steinbrenner needs to shell out even more cash to sign Jason Giambi and Johnny Damon away from the A’s and Moises Alou from the Astros, thereby extending the Yankees’ reign for another five years. But if I had to bet, I’d pick the first scenario, especially given the unpredictability of the MLB regular season, not to mention the three rounds of postseason play that exist with the wild-card...
...Japanese father poses his wife and kid in front of the rubble of WTC Building 7, the nearest devastated building to Century 21. It is now eight stories of molten, molded metal. Twisted beams project from the seventh floor like a scarecrow ghoul, its head soldered to the shell of the shard. Two decades ago, some government arts agency would have paid Richard Serra a bundle to devise and execute this idea. Even now, it has a weird... not beauty, but aleatory artfulness. In the current issue of a newsweekly (but not in THE newsweekly), the architect Bart Voorsanger says...
...million now use m-commerce to pay for gas and fast food, and their numbers are growing at 70% to 80% a year. Since 1997, 5 million ExxonMobil customers have paid for gas with just a wave from little Speedpass wands on their key rings. Phillips 66 and Shell announced their own Speedpass clones this year. Fast-food companies such as McDonald's, KFC and Taco Bell, as well as Canteen Vending, began rolling out m-commerce initiatives this year. Blockbuster and 7-Eleven are expected to follow soon...
...This former army base next to the Bagram airfield 50 km north of Kabul is a tiny slice of Stalingrad, circa 1942. Beyond the gates there's scarcely a building intact?just broken walls, smashed stonework, and ground littered with spent shell casings and twisted metal. Allah Mahmad exaggerates a bit when he says his men are holding the 40th Division base. For the past two years his platoon has been hanging on to about 100 sq m of ground inside the gate. Two small buildings still have roofs and their dark, fetid rooms serve as living quarters. There...
...Supplies are a major problem. Sitting in a shell-pocked command post with a panoramic view of the Kapisa front lines, Mahmad Zahir, a platoon commander with 21 years of combat experience, pulls out three Kalashnikov rifle magazines from the webbing under his jacket and lays them on the floor for inspection. Two of the three are empty. "We're short of ammunition?for tanks, artillery, machine guns, rifles. It's already cold, but we don't have enough blankets, and we have no winter uniforms," says the bearded, sunken-cheeked veteran. "If the Americans hit the Taliban...