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Based on part of a Wang Du Lu novel from the 1930s, the script by James Schamus, Wang Huiling and Tsai Kuojung concerns the theft of a sword, the Green Destiny. This is the holy weapon of Li Mubai (Chow), a legendary warrior looking for peace in his later days. He entrusts the sword to Yu Shulien (Yeoh), a gifted martial artist with whom he shares an unspoken love. Then Jen (Zhang), daughter of a political bigwig, arrives, and everything tips off-balance. The wiser, more cautious adults sense Jen's avidity for rare and dangerous toys like the Green...
Recently, though, I came into possession of what may be the ultimate weapon for people like me who hate cell-phone abusers: the C-Guard "cellular firewall," a $900 device that jams cellular calls. My pal Roger Rodriguez, a gentle soul who works in TIME magazine's tech department, actually ordered one. "I wanted to try it out," he explained. He had a look in his eye that I recognized...
...ULTIMATE WEAPON...
...read that Hizballah uses TOW missiles against Israel. How did an Islamic guerrilla outfit get its hands on an advanced U.S. antitank weapon...
...February. Ironically perhaps, Hizballah may have gotten the missiles indirectly from the Israelis. The Lebanese guerrilla army gets most of its weaponry from Iran. The most plausible explanation for its TOW missiles - strenuously denied by Iran - is that these are some of the 2,008 units of the antitank weapon sold to Tehran by the U.S. in 1986 in exchange for the release of American hostages held in Lebanon - the root of the Iran-contra scandal that dogged the Reagan administration. The actual delivery of those missiles to Iran was, of course, carried out by Israel...