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...flat, parched sands of northern Kuwait have grown crowded in the past few weeks. Normally the desert plains are dotted with oilworkers and the occasional weekend tent of a Kuwaiti city dweller connecting with his Bedouin roots. But now the country's northern half is a restricted military zone crammed with more than 100,000 U.S. and British troops. Makeshift firing ranges are double-booked. Patrols practicing forays into Iraqi wastelands bump into one another where their perimeters overlap. When troops from the 101st Airborne Division arrived last week, soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division had to move camp back...
...Camp Grizzly in the northern desert, Marines spend the sunset hour of most days throwing horseshoes they've made by bending tent spikes. Some do chin-ups on a 2-by-4 hung from a wooden frame next to their tent. Or they just relax by lounging on a wooden bench they built. Behind the bench, a sign on a pole reads BUS STOP. "What bus are you waiting for?" someone asks. "We're thinking of a loop," says Lance Corporal Josh Hotvet, 21, a Marine Reservist from Albany, N.Y. "Baghdad and then home...
...tent in a nearby camp, a baby-faced recruit helped Gunnery Sergeant John Bass install power and a light. "Good job," Bass told his young charge. "You're a man waiting to happen." In the coming days, boys on both sides of the border are likely to become men in an instant. --With reporting by Jim Lacey and Alex Perry/south of the Iraqi border
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...that's totally and absolutely nothing to do with Buddhism. It's completely a cultural habit. And this is something we have to break." In the evenings, with shooting complete, his foreign crew members?mostly Buddhist students of his?hold workshops for aspiring Bhutanese filmmakers in a woodstove-heated tent. Here the revered teacher sheds his usual air of pensive authority and becomes a fellow student, raising his hand to ask questions and carefully taking notes...