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...forces include a Provincial Reconstruction Team, an armored battle group, and special forces. The Australians have a 370-man Reconstruction Task Force and a Special Operations Group made up of about 300 Special Air Service troops and Army commandos. The ISAF work alongside a steadily growing Afghan National Army unit whose base sits beside Camp Holland. As well as ferreting out and fighting the Taliban, the coalition forces - which also include U.S. soldiers serving under Operation Enduring Freedom - train local soldiers and police and undertake civic improvement projects...
...Distavores I'm sorry that the local-food movement is cramping Joel Stein's style [Jan. 21]. But just because 100 miles (160 km) has been used as an arbitrary procurement distance doesn't mean that people who try to eat locally walk around the supermarket with a GPS unit. I still enjoy bananas and coffee, and I have no problem drinking beer that comes from - gasp! - California. The point of eating locally is to become more familiar with our food. It's nice to hear a farmer say that my rib-eye steak came from a cow that...
...rich. After a pit stop at McDonald's--Khattab insisted that his first food in America be a Happy Meal--Olwan pulled up to their new home, a low-slung warren of apartments on a hardscrabble stretch of West Indian School Road in Phoenix. The $450-a-month unit picked out for them had a busted air conditioner and cockroaches. It was sweltering inside. Faeza was distraught, and the manager of the building was nice enough to let her spend the weekend in the dressed-up unit used to lure new renters...
...total dollar amount was larger: $13,074,660. U.S. officers praise the program, though it is impossible to say how many Iraqi hearts and minds have been appeased. It can take months for a claim to be paid and if a claim is filed after the U.S. military unit involved is rotated out of Iraq, the odds are that the claim will never be awarded. In Iraq today, it is not uncommon for Iraqi civilians to beseech mid-ranking U.S. officers for claims for damages done...
...block "down," of course, is Managua code for "one block west." Sometimes going "down," then, actually means going uphill. To further confuse things, directions are given in a unit of measurement known as a vara, which is apparently based on the arm length of a former nobleman from some time and some place in the distant past...