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...when it's wet. Visitors are politely told to direct fluids into a hose leading downhill to a creek. Second, when going to the toilet--or anywhere away from the shelters of the camp's twin tents--always wear a helmet and body armor. Mortars drop from the sky without warning, and enemy snipers lurk along the rooftops and in the windows of nearby buildings. Despite the prospect of being shot, however, Rabiya is "the perfect spot," says Captain Peter Norris, commander of the roughly 30 U.S. troops manning the base alongside a similar number of Iraqi soldiers. Reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mission Unfinished | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...anymore, as scientists have concluded that it doesn't work reliably. But don't tell the Chinese. The country has by far the biggest weather-modification service in the world, reportedly with 7,000 antiaircraft guns and 4,900 rocket launchers that can fire chemicals into the sky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rain, rain, go away. Now | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...narrates in first-person, which, he says, “may be reliable. Or not.” The portrait features the book’s most indelible image: ignoring the “bulging black cumulus clouds” and eventual thunderstorm, the murderous Ramírez Hoffman sky-wrights a poem from his plane, one line at a time (“Death is friendship,” “Death is Chile,” “Death is my heart”). At the end, Bolaño insists that Ramírez Hoffman...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Darkness Lurks Behind Humor of 'Nazi Literature' | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...glamorous court. The score includes undertones of the whispering, scheming courtiers and the distant, outraged cries of the English public. It deftly builds tension and suspense to the point where it quite sufficiently replaces extraneous dialogue. Intimate interior scenes are spliced with establishing shots that show the sky in fast-forward, the clouds moving rapidly over the castle and its walls, as though the film is moving towards an inevitable and grim ending. But despite the film’s dark outlook, it does not drag. Instead, “The Other Boleyn Girl” darts forward with...

Author: By Jenny J. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Other Boleyn Girl | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...eventually delivering a message for humankind. The children became a focus of massive interest, and in October of that year, the Virgin's presence seem to be confirmed for many others when a crowd of 70,000 - mostly Catholics, some skeptics - saw the sun appear to zigzag in the sky as the Virgin again addressed the children. Fatima almost immediately became a global pilgrimage site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Triumph of Fatima | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

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