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...five-ton truck rattles to a stop on a dirt road just before dawn, Lieut. Jason Lojka snaps his squad to attention. "Dirty!" he barks to the men loaded in the back of the vehicle. "Boots!" they reply. Again. "Dirty!" "Boots!" The infantrymen barrel out of the truck toward a two-story home perched on the edge of a sandy bluff overlooking the Tigris, some 10 miles north of the city of Tikrit. They reach the compound's metal gate, M-16s locked and loaded. A translator bangs on the door. When an old woman opens up, the troops sweep...
...Light At The End Eurotunnel, the Anglo-French Channel Tunnel operator, announced a 7% drop in revenue for the first half of this year, leaving it unable to meet interest payments on debts of almost 39 billion. Price cuts prompted by fierce competition nulled an increase in car and truck traffic, while passenger numbers on the Eurostar service slipped...
...tried to make conversation with my new crewmates as we taxied in a small truck to the waiting B-1. I explained my job at TIME, and talked about the challenge of diagramming the World Trade Center attack. I mentioned that the task required successive all-nighters. Blood seemed unimpressed. "Yeah, well our jobs got a bit more difficult after 9/11 also," he said. I figured that was a good time to stop whining about how difficult it is to be an artist...
...Independence Day parade in Amherst, N.H., and John Forbes Kerry, the elegant Senator from Massachusetts, is wearing a button-down, long-sleeve tattersall shirt, khaki pants and topsiders. He is surrounded by about 100 supporters, many of them young people toting signs. There is a Kerry truck blaring music. "It doesn't get much better than this," he says, a statement meant to convey enthusiasm but which comes off as Kerry's awkward guess at what a politician ought to be saying in such circumstances...
...surrounded by the crowd and the humvee was set on fire. It took a third American team rushing in, firing rifles into the air, to scatter the crowd and rescue the four trapped soldiers. A helicopter was able to get in to try to rush Chris and his injured truck mate to a medical facility. But Chris died from what the military described as "massive head trauma...