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When tires do get damaged, they're repaired more often than they used to be. Mark Lyens, equipment manager for the Walsh Group, a national construction company with about 2,000 trucks, says this year he has overseen the repair of 50 tires--to save rather than shred them. Growing demand for such fixes has benefited tire-repair outfits like the Big Horn Tire Shop of Gillette, Wyo., which has more than 30 workers fixing about 70 tires at a time. Repair jobs there can take two days and cost from...
...fully daunted by the sudden, accidental death of her husband, seems content to accept a solitary life as the not unbearable price to be paid for happiness past. There's something rather touching about her self-containment. And she makes you think that if this movie had a shred of thoughtfulness about it, if it wanted to make us contemplate courageously, or even just wryly, the endgame that all of must eventually play, it might have been a very useful exercise. But to find brave and authentic good cheer - which can certainly include romance if you get lucky...
...possible no such strategy exists. But last week there was a glimmer of a shred of a possibility: Operation Forward Together, the Iraqi-led effort to secure Baghdad-finally!-using classic counterinsurgency methods. "What they're trying to do is take back the city, sector by sector," says Andrew Krepinevich, director of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and a leading expert on counterinsurgency (coin is the inevitable military acronym). You might well ask, What is coin? Let me oversimplify: coin is the military equivalent of the police strategies that mayors like New York City's Rudy Giuliani used...
...faint of heart. Among the subjects Radiohead has tackled head-on are alien abduction ("Subterranean Homesick Alien"), the dangers of political apathy ("2+2=5') and death ("Pyramid Song"). For a few short years in the early '90s it was possible to love the British quintet without a shred of guilt or defensiveness. On "Creep," the band's searing 1992 hit single, a self-described "weirdo" strips his psyche bare. "I want a perfect body, I want a perfect soul," he laments, Yorke's fallen angel voice almost choking with unrequited love. But by the time Jonny Greenwood's buzz...
TIMOTHY NAFTALI Author of Blind Spot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism I think the media have not played a helpful role. I'm convinced the media have been an unwitting handmaiden to those who play upon people's fears. If there is a shred of possibility of a dirty-bomb attack, the media will report the possibility without knowing the odds. The media want to be fair to both sides, but they should attempt to get at reality. I'm a threat skeptic. The organizations we're facing now aren't military-like. They're much less organized...