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Carriers replaced battleships at the center of U.S. naval power in World War II, but they've been losing ground, offensively and defensively, for years. Until the 1980s, the offensive punch of smaller warships was limited to short-range guns. But now these ships pack Tomahawk cruise missiles, giving every destroyer, cruiser and attack submarine the ability to destroy targets well beyond the reach of carrier-based planes--without risking pilots. Distributing that firepower across 120 warships instead of concentrating it on America's 11 carriers makes sense. Then there's the huge built-in cost of carriers. Much...
...team still needed a spark, and it looked to Lin to provide it. With nine minutes to play, Lin took the ball, faked left, drove right, and beat the whole Huskies team to the hoop, throwing down a tomahawk jam that brought Lavietes to its feet...
...place to first in their division in one year, and after being gassed by the Braves in two of the first three postseason games, the Phils got mad and even. They would not be cheesesteak cream puffs; they would be winners. The town's legendarily cranky fans answered the ''tomahawk chop'' of Atlanta admirers with the sign TOMAHAWK SCHMOMAHAWK, while the Phils summoned a very '90s street attitude. ''Beat this,'' they told the Braves, and took Atlanta four games to two. America's city in 1776 is the U.S. capital of baseball in 1993. Philadelphia, the largest small town...
...strike on a house in Dusamareeb, a few hundred miles north of Mogadishu. "Infidel planes bombed Dhusamareb," Shabab spokesman Mukhtar Ali Robow told Reuters. "Two of our important people, including Ayro, were killed." Other reports said the attack was not carried out by warplanes, but involved four Tomahawk cruise missiles. The strike marks the fifth such attack targeting Islamists in Somalia in the 16 months since the U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion in December 2006, which toppled the Islamist regime that had seized power in Mogadishu...
...that hard.On a personal level, sports have provided stability in my life and have given me an outlet for dealing with frustration and stress in a healthy manner. Growing up, there was no better way to release some pent-up anger than by throwing down a tomahawk jam on the hoop in my backyard (even if I had to lower the hoop a few feet).Now that I’m at Harvard, where students face enormous pressure in an unpredictable environment, it’s comforting to know that in the frigid months of winter there will always...