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...American Red Cross and FEMA that they would not help him find Hurricane Katrina victims who needed a place to stay. If he wanted to help, he should give cash, he was told. Otherwise, who knows whom he might let into his home? They might be murderers. They might smoke. In any case, there would be great strain on everyone...
...bellies, two weapons sergeants start loading an 84-mm M-3 antitank recoilless rifle. "They got guns," says a commando shouldering a rocket launcher. "Let's f_______ do this." He kneels, exposing himself without any choice, takes aim and fires. Whump. The top of the insurgents' building blossoms black smoke. Over the cacophony of machine-gun fire and explosions, the leader of the commando team bellows to his men that the insurgents have spotted them. "Displace, displace--they got our position!" he yells, as the troops vacate the open rooftop in a stooped sprint...
...soldiers on the front lines, the U.S. troops blast the area with cannon fire, obliterating nearby shops and houses from where gunmen had been shooting just moments before. The fighting is so close, you could throw rocks and hit the man trying to kill you. Buildings erupt in smoke and flames. F-16 fighter jets roar overhead. "We got people moving around on rooftops in the vicinity of the mosque," the Green Beret team sergeant reports on radio. Six Hellfire missiles come barreling in, detonating 80 yards away and showering rubble onto the troops' helmets. Pulling out, the Renegade Troop...
Smaller sinks and more efficient dishwashers were installed, which will save water and thousands of dollars each year, as well as new smoke detectors and fans to reduce heating costs...
...drama and historical import has diminished. That's a positive thing, a sign of how profoundly the U.S.-China relationship has deepened in three decades. When Deng Xiaoping met Jimmy Carter in the White House in 1979?memorable quote: "Has your Congress passed a law that I cannot smoke?"?the bamboo curtain had just been prized open: full diplomatic relations between the two countries were only four weeks old, and the first imports from China?lots of wicker baskets?were just hitting American stores. Today, the U.S. and China trade more than $200 billion in goods a year: American families...