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...image of the children is impossible to forget. When the fire fight in Karbala first broke out, all they could think of was their first casualty, Brown--his side open, his eyes lulling--being carried out past them. But Specialist Larry Brown was a man of 20, and he was a professional infantryman. The kids, boys, were maybe 7 or 8 and had no place there. Bravo Company wasted them. Had to. Right when the fire fight was at its hottest, when maybe 100 guys were popping up across the rooftops firing AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades, the boys...
...manufacturer Lorenzo Rubelli from original patterns found in the state archives in Budapest; intarsia floors by Joseph Danhauser incorporating eight different kinds of wood; charming Angelika Kaufmann medallions released from decades of dust and grime; and, everywhere, sparkling chandeliers copied from the originals where necessary by the Austrian crystal specialist Swarovski. In the Gold Cabinet, the smallest of the staterooms, gilders used a special "Albertina" mix of 23-carat gold plus one-carat silver and copper to renew the extravagant wall paneling to its original sheen, while the Hall of the Muses, a former Habsburg ballroom, has breathtaking newly restored...
...death of someone who meant no harm - in the same confined space as the plane's controls. Many pilots, on the other hand, want as much security as they can get. "It beats having an F-16 shooting you out of the air," said Steve Luckey, a security specialist with the Airline Pilots Association, referring to the government's solution of last resort when confronted with a hijacked airliner that could be used as a bomb. While TSA won't release numbers, the percentage of flights with an armed air marshal aboard is in the low single digits, Luckey said...
Dean W. Hunt, assistant manager at foreign book specialist Schoenhof’s, says that in the days after the war started he noticed “a most visible decrease in business,” even in phone calls to the store...
...they found it harder to stay in touch. Holck moved to Colorado for a year, and even when she went back home to Houston, the women's schedules kept them apart. Holck, 28, a program coordinator for a youth ministry, often works late, and White, 28, a public relations specialist, logs plenty of hours in the office herself. Add their romantic lives, and there didn't seem to be time even for lunch. "We'd both look at our calendars, and there'd be no time that worked," Holck says. "Amber is in a serious relationship, and I was planning...