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...system includes a radar station that detects, identifies and tracks targets in the sky and guides the PAC-3 missile to the target; a mobile control station with which ground forces monitor incoming missiles and fire the PAC-3; a launching station that holds 16 PAC-3 missiles...
...Fires and floods, tornadoes and droughts--all provide startling images that remind us of the power of the natural world. By comparison, our own efforts can seem puny: a railroad buckles, houses cower before an oncoming storm, fishermen desperately try to combat a flood in torrent. In the night sky, a light show beyond the wildest dreams of human engineers makes us primeval once more, gazing to the heavens with the same kind of wonder that the earliest of our kind must once have felt...
...Nameless has three main adversaries: Sky (Donnie Yen), a master martial artist he defeats in the film's first, superb battle scene; Broken Sword (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), a calligrapher who is as adroit with a brush as with a saber; and Flying Snow (Maggie Cheung), Broken Sword's soul mate. Flying Snow has a side skirmish of her own with Moon (Zhang Ziyi), Broken Sword's smitten apprentice. Loyalties are tested, alliances made and sundered. Death is the price for betrayal?of the King or the heart...
...purest blue lapis on earth comes from Afghanistan. I felt like I was holding a sliver of the fallen sky in my hand, and the fact that I'd robbed it from bin Laden added to its intensity. For thousands of years, painters have coveted lapis.Ground to powder and mixed with oils, it can render the perfect azure of the sea, the Virgin Mary's robes, or heaven. I wondered why bin Laden wanted all that lapis. Baubles for his four wives? I doubt he was trying to approximate the color of heaven; his experiments have all been...
...inevitably, to Sar-e-Sang mine in northern Afghanistan, the main source of lapis. "The first 20 meters would have given the stones for the Egyptian tombs," she writes. "A little later was where the Bamiyan Buddhas got their haloes." Deeper down was "where Titian may have got his sky from?a whole art history in one little pathway...