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...about 6:30 a.m., I saw the beach with its huge seawall at the foot of a massive bluff. An 88-mm shell landed right in the middle of the LCA [to] the side of us, and splinters of the boat, equipment and bodies were thrown into the air. Bullets were passing through the thin wooden sides of our vessel. The ramp was lowered, and the inner door was opened. A German machine gun trained on the opening took a heavy toll of lives. Many of my 30 buddies went down as they left...
Only 16 pitchers in major league baseball history had thrown perfect games when Arizona's "Big Unit" took the mound last week against Atlanta. Make that 17. RANDY JOHNSON retired all 27 Braves he faced, fanning 13, including the last batter. At 40, the southpaw became the oldest to achieve pitching's crown jewel, surpassing Cy Young, who did it at 37--100 years...
...After Tomorrow could just as well have been called The Even More Perfect Storm. The premise is this: Global warming has thrown Earth's delicate climate grotesquely out of whack. Sinuously swaying tornadoes chew through the HOLLYWOOD sign in California. Killer hail bops Japanese commuters on the head. New York City is spectacularly swamped by a tidal wave and then snap-frozen at --150°F by a killer blizzard. (That must mean it's officially O.K. to destroy New York City in movies again.) Somewhere in there Dennis Quaid, as an implausibly hunky paleoclimatologist, has to rescue Gyllenhaal...
...powerless to do anything about it. He's a brooding, angry, heavily shadowed Superman, riddled with self-doubt. "For the first time, I was really afraid," he says. "Lost, without my rhythm." You get through the entire issue before you realize not a single punch has been thrown...
When writer Chuck Austen got handed Action Comics, another Superman monthly, he knew punches would be thrown, what with the title and all. But Superman is on the receiving end for a change. "As someone who loved the dark side for a long time, I had little or no interest in Superman for years," Austen says. "He was perfect--his powers left him with no vulnerability. So I requested DC allow some cosmetic changes--make him a bit less powerful, a lot more vulnerable physically." Austen's Superman can take a joke as well as a punch. He rags...