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...modern walkers, free from the uncertainty and food worries that plagued Caley, have time to revel in their surroundings. Giant red waratah blooms stand on thick stalks like sentinels beside dark pools. Slow slugs colored electric pink and pale green come out after the rain, when the rich brown, gold and silver-gray hues of wet bark glisten. Huge flowers adorn gnarled banksia trees so old they would have been sprouting when Caley passed by. Owls call to another in the dark, and the stars, which Caley thought he was seeing when he found glow-worms in Luminous Valley, glitter...
...Americans' methods well. To negate the U.S.'s preference to fight in the dark using night-vision equipment, the insurgents focused their attacks in the dim light of dawn and dusk. As the sun set, a decrepit warehouse suddenly sparkled with at least a dozen muzzle flashes. Bullets flew thick over the unit's commandeered building. "Look at the industrial complex," Bellavia yelled at his men. "I want you to shoot, shoot." The Wolf Pack lashed back with chattering automatic-weapons fire. A sister platoon, bunkered down a few hundred yards to the west, joined in, bringing a deadly cross...
...enemy picture is so murky we just don't know anything for sure except for what you see with your own eyes," Alpha Company's commander, Captain Sean Sims, told his officers. The soldiers pushed south into the industrial zone along the eastern corridor, moving into the thick of the cement plants and metal-strewn yards. The soldiers geared up to drive into the teeth of the resistance--the kind of fight the military had been spoiling for. JDAMs rocked the earth and artillery carved a path forward as the sounds of fire fights resonated in all directions...
...question that most potential purchasers (downloaders, rippers, burners, etc.) should be asking themselves about Toronto-based the Hidden Camera’s new album Mississauga Goddam. Musically, the disc is eclectic, thick and often lavish—at times somewhere between Rufus Wainwright and Belle and Sebastian (“The Fear is On” and the charming opener “Doot Doot Ploot”), and at others, like Nick Drake on too much gin-spiked coffee (“B-Boy” and “That’s When the Ceremony Starts?...
...Hoyte explains in his thick Boston accent that the Associate Dean had the latitude to lean on departments when they made promotion considerations. “There was this focused effort, and up until a couple of years ago, it was quite clear, quite energetic, and quite encouraged by a number of senior faculty women, [which] resulted in very strong performance...