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...talk about surfing, but I do. I know what they want, but I haven't allowed myself to be cornered in a long time.'' In 1968 Dave, a surfer from Laguna Beach, California, became a Lurp, which is to say a sergeant in a Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol unit. These were said to be some of the baddest s.o.b.s of the war, and anyone who saw them then knew they did not suffer fools. They operated out where no one else went, and if you ever saw them in a civilized setting, they were likely to be drunk and abusive...
...Kill covers the war's early days, when the U.S. steamrolled Saddam's military, few of the casualties are American. But knowing what waits for these troops after this story ends (the resistance, the IEDS), makes us fear for them. We get a few chilling glimpses, as when the unit finds a dead fighter carrying papers from Syria. Some of the men rejoice at killing a "terrorist," but Lieutenant Nate Fick (Stark Sands) asks, "Isn't that the exact opposite of what we wanted to have happen here? Two weeks ago, he was still a student in Syria...
Since we're dealing with percentages rather than unit sales, it's impossible to say whether we're talking about a ton of books, or a modest number. But it's fairly certain that, given the enormous number of new books that Amazon sells, and the fact that many if not most are also simultaneously released as Kindle e-books, we're talking about a good sign for Amazon...
...Austin, Texas, the nation's first computer research consortium, where he worked in the natural language processing group on AI. How many best-selling novelists can you name with a patent? He's one of three guys who were awarded Patent 5,339,391 for "Computer Display Unit with Attribute-Enhanced Scroll Bar." (If you'd like more evidence of his geek bona fides, see his resume on LinkedIn...
FARC commanders dismiss the "narco-guerrilla" portrayal as government propaganda and insist they're still a viable rebel movement whose survival doesn't depend on drug income. For his part, Alberto points to his unit's spartan housing conditions - mountain and jungle shacks often without electricity or running water - as proof that they're not exactly living as sumptuously as famous cocaine kingpins like Pablo Escobar...