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...mountains of Afghanistan are beautiful this time of year. Snow blankets the peaks from Kabul to the Khyber Pass, smothering the ancient smugglers' footpaths that lead out of the country and into Pakistan. With the arrival of winter, human traffic in the mountains comes to a halt and the terrain is enveloped in an otherworldly calm...
...F/A-18 pilots eject). But his most memorable work is of a more sweeping sort. He uses a high camera gracefully, swirlingly, to isolate Burnett in the stark and unforgiving mountains. He can also get down on the ground, in low angles, to track Burnett's flight across flatter terrain while still stressing the man's lonely desperation. It's too much to say that Moore's work constitutes a reinvention of the action movie. But he does have a terrific eye, and he never forgets that his hero is one small man moving through a desolate and deadly landscape. Burnett...
...Second, there?s not really a time element here. What does it matter if Kandahar falls next week or next month? Why change the formula, when there?s nothing to be gained? The Northern Alliance fighters know the terrain and the language, and U.S. forces haven?t trained with them, aren?t used to communicating with them on the battlefield. The Marines will probably end up doing what it makes sense for them to do - provide technical support, protect the airfield, maybe cut off an escape route if it?s needed. But going door-to-door in Kandahar when...
...slightly more feasible than balancing on a barbell. But what Kamen is talking about is the way Ginger does the balancing for you. Lean forward, go forward; lean back, go back; turn by twisting your wrist. The experience is the same going uphill, downhill or across any kind of terrain - even ice. It is nothing like riding a bike or a motorcycle. Instead, in the words of Vern Loucks, the former chairman of Baxter International and a Segway board member, "it's like skiing without the snow...
...Somalia's 2,000-mile coastline, inhospitable, warlord-dominated terrain and the near total absence of government authority make it perfect bin Laden country. And the U.S. believes there's already an association: "Somalia has been a place that has harbored al Qaeda and, to my knowledge, still is," Defense Secretary Rumsfeld said Tuesday. And in this era of zero-tolerance, that's fighting talk...