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...sentence or two some practical reasons why the war was covered almost entirely on the Pentagon's terms: its brevity, the fact that so much of it was by air (in planes too small to accommodate the press) and, once it shifted to the ground, the rigorous terrain...
...dumbfounded by Ndokanda's photographic memory for terrain, it is soon his turn to be impressed. Using a compass and a battery-operated geopositioning system, we look for the two clearings. The system works by using signals sent from satellites and can pinpoint a position within 100 m. By taking a reading in the middle of a swamp near the camp (trees block the satellite signals), we are able to determine the way to the clearings...
...final year, is a montage of Middle American normality: flags fluttering over front porches, hand-painted signs tacked to trees announcing weekend garage sales, white-haired elders watering lawns, teenage boys working on cars. But somehow, as Fisher traveled that brief and reassuring stretch of terrain day after day, her life took the sort of detour that is every parent's nightmare. She is accused of becoming a prostitute by age 15, meeting customers through an escort service and sustaining contact via a beeper that she showed off in the high school girls' room. Far worse, she is charged with...
...Rouge, eager to see even indigenous ethnic Vietnamese expelled, are likely to press the issue. As the U.N. troops search for foreign forces, they are supposed to locate and confiscate weapons caches as well. And they must deactivate hundreds of thousands of mines that poison the country's rugged terrain before the 370,000 refugees living in camps along the Thai border can be repatriated. The U.N. mission is also expected to make adequate preparations for that homecoming, although many of the prospective returnees have lived in the camps more than a decade and have lost their rural bearings. "Most...
...futurize this familiar terrain, he challenged production designers, computer and video professionals, and fashion artists to create the clothing, the cityscapes and the technology of the approaching century. The results are fascinating...