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...Tomb Raiders are now stretched thin. With Beverly likely to remain outside of Iraq for the rest of the deployment and Whiteside preparing for reassignment to another unit, only six soldiers who were part of the platoon when it was constituted in Kuwait will still be in country in 2004. For missions outside the wire, the Tomb Raiders borrow soldiers from other platoons, but they have to carry out their routine duties--monitoring the radio, maintaining vehicles, staffing the battalion's Internet cafe, manning guard positions on the roof--with fewer soldiers, straining their combat effectiveness. "Maybe...
...commercial fortune were, if anything, inversely proportional. And whereas 2002 gave us famous has-beens, like Ozzy Osbourne and Anna Nicole, 2003 was the year of famous never-weres. Ally Hilfiger and Jamie Gleicher of MTV's Rich Girls, for instance, seem to have been created out of thin air so we could envy and sneer at them at once...
...also imagine a thin shadow of the future falling across the floor. Kids grow up. The magic of Christmas is replaced by some of the more ragged emotions that surface in families, especially during the holidays. The weight of conflict often moves in where imagination once lifted everyone's spirits. If we're lucky, it is merely a rite of passage and we emerge from it. But it takes determination to come around again to the uncorrupted enthusiasm that was once so natural. Perhaps that's the true richness of this traditional Christmas tale. It may not be sacred...
...Caroline--like Caroline--doesn't move us as she should. The anecdote that sets the story in motion seems too thin to carry the message-laden freight. The broader social milieu--the early civil-rights movement, the J.F.K. assassination--is merely introduced, not dramatized. The musical aims for operatic tragedy and--with the help of Pinkins' steely, square-shouldered power--keeps promising a big payday. But too often, we can't help feeling a little shortchanged. --By Richard Zoglin
...hard lessons about focusing. Although Alien once concentrated on flexible computer screens, it is now putting all its efforts behind radio-frequency-identification (RFID) tags. The key to both flexible screens and RFID tags is Alien's patented manufacturing process, which allows chips to be generously sprinkled onto thin plastic sheets that can be easily attached to almost any type of product. Once fastened to a pack of razor blades, for example, a RFID chip emits a radio signal that allows the manufacturer or retailer to track if and when the product has been sold. Alien is the market leader...