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...Chinooks headed for Ginger, at the southeast corner of the valley, where American forces had met intense opposition two days before. As the choppers prepared to set down, they came under heavy fire from small arms and rocket-propelled grenades, one of which bounced, without exploding, off the armor of a Chinook. In the same bird, a hydraulic line was cut, and the pilots radioed back to Bagram that continuing with the mission would be suicide. Major General Frank (Buster) Hagenbeck, the force commander, agreed, and the choppers veered away to the north, climbing steeply. They found a place...
...drink coffee, consuming 450 million cups daily and spending $18 billion every year. The second most traded commodity after oil, coffee beans are grown by the labor of 20 million people in nearly 80 countries, using 26 million acres of land. In developing countries throughout Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia, coffee is primarily produced on small family farms...
...late December night. But from the air, it looked to the pilots like what their intelligence source had claimed: a gathering of al-Qaeda terrorists. Dozens of cars had converged on Qila-Niazi, a hamlet of 12 mud-walled homes in the shadow of a snowy ridge 80 miles southeast of Kabul. The women were gossiping and painting their hands red with henna. The men were in another room playing cards and dancing. Music drowned out the sounds of the U.S. warplanes overhead...
...Chinooks headed for Ginger, at the southeast corner of the valley, where American forces had met intense opposition two days before. As the choppers prepared to set down, they came under heavy fire from small arms and rocket-propelled grenades, one of which bounced, without exploding, off the armor of a Chinook. In the same bird, a hydraulic line was cut, and the pilots radioed back to Bagram that continuing with the mission would be suicide. Major General Frank (Buster) Hagenbeck, the force commander, agreed, and the choppers veered away to the north, climbing steeply. They found a place...
...late 1980s Bangkok was suffering from a lack of hotels," says Vincent Tabuteau, director of East-West?call (66-2) 256-0168?a travel operator that focuses on traditional Southeast Asian adventures. "We had this old barge and thought that it would be a good idea to plan a relaxing cruise that would introduce tourists to Thai lifestyle and culture." He and his partners named the first boat Mekhala, after the goddess of water from the Thai epic Ramakian...