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Even in daylight, it's difficult to identify likely IED emplacers. "Every other guy in Afghanistan has a shovel over his shoulder," says Lieut. Colonel Tony Demartino, commander of the Army 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, referring to the tools carried by day laborers involved in repairs and rural reconstruction projects. "The insurgents are able to exploit this with ease...
Here, on Death Marsh, Mandy Lindberg, a scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Alaska's Auke Bay, turns over a shovel of sand and broken rock to reveal a glistening pool of brackish oil. The crude can be chemically typed to the Exxon Valdez, and more oil can be found beneath the beach at Death Marsh and at a number of islands around the Sound. "I wouldn't have possibly believed the oil would last this long," says Lindberg. "Studying the spill has been a great learning experience, but if we had known in the years...
...Gitmo detainees who could be neither tried nor released, and he requested an extra $50 million for a new facility on U.S. soil. Greg Smith, executive director of Hardin's Two Rivers Authority, says the isolated town could be a "good fit." Its facility is beyond "shovel-ready," he says--it's a turnkey operation...
...first shovel load and he teased President Faust that she didn’t have enough dirt when she went next, so Dean Graham and I both made sure we had a full load,” McCartney said...
...Most of the tunnels are pretty crude, what law enforcement call gopher holes. Typically just a few feet down and only long enough to get under a fence or two, they can be dug with a pick axe and shovel in the span of just a few nights. Some of them tap into existing infrastructure, using paved roads as roofs, or by punching their way into extensive storm drainage systems that are sometimes shared by border towns, such as with the town of Nogales, Mexico and its northern neighbor in Arizona - also called Nogales...