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...Where Chinese military doctrine was once based on human-wave attacks, it now stresses the killing power of technology. There's nothing new, or particularly frightening, about such a transformation; it's what nations do all the time. If the Sioux hadn't learned how to handle horses and shoot Winchesters, they wouldn't have wiped out Custer's forces at the Little Bighorn...
...story is told by one of four protagonists who live in the Russian wilderness. A Chechnya vet, he is now a sniper guard for the local nuclear plant. His job is to shoot first. His friends Hotdog and Pepsi, parking-lot attendants, make their living stealing gas from cars. Natasha has slept with two of the three and now runs an international Internet mail-order bride service called Amour Transit, patronized by the fsb (former kgb) and foreign-intelligence services. It's an empty existence of anger and boredom punctuated only by what's on television that night. "Those...
...feisty Terriers’ penetration into the lane got BU 30 free throws to the Crimson’s 13.“That’s a mental mistake,” Hallion said. “A Division I team shouldn’t shoot 30 percent from the line.”The Terriers, despite their smaller size, also successfully defended against Harvard inside the paint. The Crimson opened the game with six quick baskets in the low post, but BU implemented an aggressive halfcourt man-to-man defense that stymied Crimson guard play and forced Harvard...
...which Lynch films are made. A script? Not so much. Because he's considered an auteur, Lynch was able to convene a cast, including Jeremy Irons and Harry Dean Stanton, before he wrote Empire. "I'd get an idea for a scene, write the scene, gather people together and shoot that scene," says Lynch. "I didn't know if the second scene would relate to the first or the third." This is where Lynch's decades-long commitment to transcendental meditation--which he documents in a new book, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity--came in handy. "Since...
...DIED. Kenneth Taylor, 86, who, with squadron mate George Welch, became the first U.S. Army Air Force pilots to get airborne-and, under fire, shoot down at least six enemy planes-immediately following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; in Tucson, Arizona. Taylor, then 21, was on his first assignment at Hawaii's Wheeler Field on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941. Hearing machine-gun fire, he grabbed Welch and drove to their planes. "I wasn't in the least bit terrified," he later said. "I was too young and too stupid to realize that...