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...rolled them off the road into a ditch so that they wouldn't be run over. We walked single file up the road, as the verges could have been mined. There was sniping. I gave instructions that the section leader should give a burst of fire at any thick foliage or any windows that were open. The windows soon shut. We stopped to have a cup of tea; we stayed in the ditch, and one of the men who could speak fluent French brought back a pail of boiling water...
VENUS Its size and composition make it almost a twin of Earth, but its atmosphere is so thick that pressure at the surface is 90 times that on Earth. The atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide flavored with sulfur and sulfuric acid, which has caused a runaway greenhouse effect. The result: temperatures of more than 800°F (430?...
...stylish cross-marketing, Olympus will introduce in July the official camera of Schumacher's racing team, the Ferrari Digital Model 2004 ($699), a 3.2megapixel digital camera with 3X optical zoom. The innards were conceived mainly by Olympus' brain trust. (Its sleek body is less than 1 in. thick, thanks to a periscope-style zoom lens, and though measuring only 3.7 in. across, it still manages to sport a spacious 2.5-in. LCD screen.) In an automotive homage, the company worked with Ferrari designers to achieve a high-gloss red finish that's identical to the one on their cars...
...Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. Committee aides discovered belatedly that their copy of the 6,000-page report on prison abuses produced by Major General Antonio M. Taguba might not be complete. The copy they got after Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's testimony on May 7 was a thick document with 106 annexes, and it was quickly arranged into separate binders. Only later did the committee stack up all the pages, compare them with a ream of 6,000 blank pages and decide that at least 2,000 pages were missing. "We'd certainly like to know why they...
...Museum Ludwig in October, is a reminder of Hopper's gift for finding mystery and beauty in the mundane. Face to face, of course, you can appreciate these works as paintings. The brushwork is sometimes fluid and smudgy, sometimes tight and careful; elsewhere surfaces are built up with thick layers. It's all meant to create an impact from a distance, though, and Tate Modern provides plenty of space for this to happen. When talking of Hopper's work, admirers and experts invariably use words like melancholy and alienation. Certainly, most of his paintings project isolation and ennui. Even when...