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After the AWACs radioed the B-1 the location of its new target, aircraft commander Captain Chris Wachter and his crew set about triple-checking the coordinates with the controller. "We want to make sure that we're able to be very precise with our weapons, much like, say, a sniper rifle where it's one shot, one kill," says Wachter. There was silence in the cockpit as crew members handled their assigned tasks. "When we got the word that it was a priority leadership target, you get kind of an adrenaline rush," says Lieut. Colonel Fred Swan, senior weapons...
...years ago, the average age was 55. The electronica band Lemon Jelly opened recent concerts with a bingo game instead of a supporting band. "Bingo is the only female-dominated leisure pursuit," says Richard Sowerby, marketing director for Gala Group, one of Britain's two biggest bingo operators. "We target women in their mid-to-late thirties because they're equally happy to go along with their mothers or sit alongside someone who's 19. It's a secure environment, as opposed to others that are male-dominated like clubs and pubs." True, the average bingo game is unlikely...
...jester. My former, humorless self is resurrected... this may sound vague. Why don’t I offer an example. Recently, a friend suggested: “Do, Dump or Marry: demonstrators for peace in the wake of September 11, proponents of divestment from Israel and (my personal favorite target) Tom Paulin supporters.” It is only during instances of exigency that the sanctity of Do, Dump or Marry can be violated, that its rules may be changed. This, however, was one such instance. I immediately and passionately blurted “dump all three...
Although his comment has resulted in criticism, Summers may have been unwittingly on target. After all, what is Harvard but a pricey sleepaway camp? There are games (Beirut, not cat’s cradle), mystery culinary concoctions and classes in Printmaking and Trees. But Larry need not fear for the academic lives of Harvard students—there may still be hope. When asked for a comment, former Boy Scout camp counselor Clay T. Capp ’06 said, “I don’t have time to talk right now—I have...
...legs can attest to the hardship of crouching out of sight in a little ball for 15 minutes while waiting for a target to roll towards me. At least when you’re trying to hit a round ball with a round bat, you’ve got full circulation in your lower extremities...