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...swatches of desert where danger swirls like sand devils and then disappears. Sure, kids still pester the troops for candy and water. But the grownups aren't in a hospitable mood. In fact, small groups of Iraqi soldiers, many in plain clothes, are letting the heavy metal pass--70-ton M1A1 Abrams tanks and Bradley troop carriers--and lying in wait for the soft-skinned, lightly armed trucks hauling fuel, food and water. Every day, the journey to Baghdad stretches ever longer as Charlie Rock and other units like it that expected to be on the front line are finding...
Comic books were just a few years old when the red-caped figure, lifting a 2-ton car as if it were lawn furniture, graced the cover of Action Comics No. 1. Superman was the creation of Cleveland teenagers Jerry Siegel (writer) and Joe Shuster (illustrator). They envisioned him in 1932 and for six fruitless years tried to get him into print. In early 1938, comics publisher Max Gaines (whose son Bill would publish Tales from the Crypt and Mad in the '50s) recommended the lads to DC Comics. Finally someone said yes. From that first issue, the character...
...swatches of desert where danger swirls like sand devils and then disappears. Sure, kids still pester the troops for candy and water. But the grownups aren't in a hospitable mood. In fact, small groups of Iraqi soldiers, many in plain clothes, are letting the heavy metal pass-70-ton M1A1 Abrams tanks and Bradley troop carriers-and lying in wait for the soft-skinned, lightly armed trucks hauling fuel, food and water...
...Devil Docs had already moved forward with the first advance, so to catch up with them we rode in the bed of an open 7-ton truck-lined with sandbags in case we hit a mine-for 17 hours. Their base, Camp Viper, in south-central Iraq, had a team of 44 medical personnel, including doctors, nurses, medics and corpsmen. I toured the two 40-ft. by 40-ft. operating tents, each reinforced with two layers of tent canvas and a solid floor. They were clean and sanitary, as any operating room should...
...didn’t have a ton of games under our belts at that point,” said Harvard coach Katey Stone. “Were we as prepared as I hope to be on Friday? I don’t think...