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When Paul Watson drives to work at Yatala, on Brisbane's southern edge, he rides high-and not just because of his vehicle's 37-in. wheels. He enjoys the double-takes people give his khaki and brown car-or-truck-or-is-it-a-tank: "They'll come up and say, Wow, that's awesome," says Watson. But the biggest lift comes from driving something that once existed only in his imagination: "To drive it down the road and think, 'We built this'-that's a real buzz...
...shed beside his home at Mareeba, 60 km west of Cairns-that the retired farmer doesn't have a story about: from the recoilless cannon built for a Russian czar to the empty 250-kg chemical bomb from Australia's World War II stockpile, to the Vietnam-era Centurion tank...
...many black candidates with sufficient money, party support and appeal across racial lines run for those senior offices. "In terms of viable candidates, this is probably the best year," said David Bositis, who studies African-American politics at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Washington think tank. And in an even more surprising twist, three of them are Republicans, although only about 7% of American blacks identify with the party...
...sleek lines of the Israeli Merkava tank protrude from behind an olive tree at the end of a track of churned earth, its barrel pointing menacingly at the border road. But this tank is harmless, a burnt-out and abandoned victim of Hizballah's deadly anti-armor missiles. The detritus of a hasty departure lies around the fire blackened tank - a green canvas army sack covered in dried blood, discarded food wrappers with Hebrew inscriptions and several broken stretchers...
...headquarters, hugs the frontier, coming in some places to within two hundred yards of the fence. No Israeli soldiers were to be seen even though the border road technically lies behind the Israeli army's frontline in some places. Still, the Israeli military activity was manifest in the numerous tank tracks that criss-cross the border road and run through fields of bright green tobacco plants. The border road, a potholed single-lane route even in normal times, is pockmarked from exploding artillery rounds, the asphalt churned by caterpillar tracks...