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Inside a darkened viewing chamber on the top floor of Paris' Centre Pompidou, visitors peer at what looks like a psychedelic astral storm, raging to a soundtrack of electronic bleeps and retro '70s rock. In a 45-minute video loop, a twisting cloud vortex is projected onto a long rectangular screen, morphing through the colors of the rainbow while meteorite showers and 3-D computer incrustations drift across the foreground. "I'd like people to look at it like they'd look at a sunset," says Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, the artist responsible for Exotourisme. "I wanted to blur the boundaries...
...onto the back of a snowmobile and zoomed through the drifts to the stranded plane. By next morning, when the runways and roads had been plowed and passengers were streaming through the terminal, Bomaster had thoroughly checked the plane and allowed it to take off fully loaded. (A new storm then stranded him at the airport for an additional 24 hours...
...their demands to be met, after which they'll begin executing their captives. They have described themselves as "smertniki" - those condemned to death, or kamikaze - and have killed at least one hostage who had tried to flee. Although Russian special forces have surrounded the building, they insist they wont storm it unless the Chechens start executing hostages. Negotiations aimed at a peaceful resolution continue...
...goal was the calm before the storm...
...taking out discrete buildings they had targeted. Today's smart bombs make the old ones look dim-witted. What's more, newer smart bombs are far cheaper and easier to use, so there would be a lot more of them raining down on Iraqi targets. In 1991's Desert Storm, precision-guided munitions accounted for 7% of the bombs used. That share jumped to 30% in 1999's Kosovo conflict and to 60% in Afghanistan last year. Pentagon officials say they would aim for 100% in the opening days of any war with Iraq...