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...three Ansar positions with mortars, heavy machinegun and anti-aircraft artillery, 40mm grenades and 500 pound bombs dropped from planes overhead. Still, the fire was returned by an enemy clearly visible through binoculars. At one point, three Ansar fighters simply stood on a mountain ledge, not flinching at the torrent of fire poured at them. At one stage one defender screamed "God is Great," even as grenades and heavy rounds peppered the cave he had ducked into...
...Ship Made of Paper (Ecco; 352 pages), Scott Spencer's very fine new novel about wild love. But don't imagine it's there because his reckless lovers--one white, one black--find a happy ending at Niagara Falls. This is a book about love as a torrent, a force of nature that overwhelms families, harrows lives and lays waste to whole towns as it thunders through. Love may be our only hope, but when you put this book down--not an easy thing to do--you may wonder how civilization survives...
...help it can get. Ever since Case, then head of AOL, and Gerald Levin, then chief of Time Warner, agreed two years ago to complete the $106 billion deal in which the online upstart bought the old-media giant, their union has produced a Shakespearean torrent of pain and recrimination. As the Internet bubble burst and advertising slid into recession, the company's executives were slow to adjust their lavish profit-growth promises to Wall Street, which struck back hard. Having tumbled from a high of $56.60, the price of AOL Time Warner's widely held stock stood...
...this story were an E-mail message, chances are you would have trashed it by now. That's because the subject is Viagra, the little blue pill that allows many otherwise impotent men to achieve erection and, not coincidentally, continues to generate a torrent of Internet spam. Hard to believe it has been almost five years since Viagra was approved by the Food and Drug Administration. In that time early fears that the drug might cause nerve damage to the eye or directly trigger cardiac deaths have been laid to rest, while its status as a cultural phenomenon has grown...
...both awe and terror. Fires and floods, tornadoes and droughts--all provide startling images that remind us of the power of the natural world. By comparison, our own efforts can seem puny: a railroad buckles, houses cower before an oncoming storm, fishermen desperately try to combat a flood in torrent. In the night sky, a light show beyond the wildest dreams of human engineers makes us primeval once more, gazing to the heavens with the same kind of wonder that the earliest of our kind must once have felt...