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...Marines expected much fighting when they were assigned to Mahmudiyah, just outside Baghdad. Then the insurgency erupted. Newly arrived units took more casualties in a few days than their predecessors had in eight months. Pantano recalls watching a convoy of Marine humvees pass his platoon. "We wave, then realize something is wrong. Tires and windows were shot out, blood was seeping through, out the bottoms of the humvees. Ten humvees had busted out of a kill zone but were shot to hell. There was one KIA, and nearly everyone else was wounded one way or another." Officers interviewed by TIME...
...include submarine engines, fire control systems for air defense missile batteries, or over-the-horizon targeting." The Chinese want such technology because the People's Liberation Army has been on a modernization drive. It has cut forces by hundreds of thousands of personnel and revised its strategies from human-wave attacks toward surgical strikes. The short-term objective is not necessarily the capability to invade Taiwan?which China regards as a renegade province?but to possess the missiles and submarines that would make a threat of invasion credible enough should Taiwan ever think of declaring formal independence...
...three years, a wave of bombings, assassinations and religious violence has swept Bangladesh. Members of the militant Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (J.M.J.B.) in the north have claimed responsibility for the bombings of cinemas and cultural shows, and for the killing of scores of Hindus and Buddhists as well as Muslims they considered too lax. A campaign of assassinations by bombs saw failed attempts last year on British High Commissioner Anwar Choudhury and opposition leader Sheikh Hasina, and a successful bid on Jan. 27 to kill senior opposition figure Shah Abu Mohammed Shamsul Kibria. Meanwhile, Western intelligence agencies are increasingly concerned...
...certain tasks. That might explain why they often recover better from a stroke, since the healthy parts of their mind compensate for the injured regions. Men do their thinking in more focused regions of the brain, whether they are solving a math problem, reading a book or feeling a wave of anger or sadness...
Look out, surfers: there's a wave of controversy headed your way over the latest version of the Google Toolbar, a popular Web browser add-on that attaches a search box and an extra row of buttons onto Internet Explorer. The new version (available at google.com) includes a feature called AutoLink, which can transform plain text on any Web page into a link that sends users to a related site for more information. AutoLink, though still in beta, has many Web watchers crying foul because it gives Google--not users or publishers of sites in which links are embedded...