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Emily Cross is the best female fencer Harvard has ever seen. As impressive as it sounds, that description pales in comparison with Cross’s other accomplishments. The rising senior, who is currently ranked 11th in the world in the foil weapon, is one of the greatest female foilists in United States history. “She’s just exceptional,” Crimson coach Peter Brand says. “American fencing has never seen anything like this. In foil, she is the best we’ve had in the modern...
...formed penetrators, or EFPs, proved effective at piercing American armor by firing a concave copper disc from a makeshift cannon, which transformed the slug midair into a molten jet of super-heated metal. Accusations that Iran was shipping the things into Iraq grew louder as U.S. casualties from the weapon rose. But no concrete evidence has emerged in public that Iran was behind the weapons. U.S. officials have revealed no captured shipments of such devices and offered no other proof...
...some gigantic Gandhi. Nonviolent resistance is a sanctified political strategy, but as the key to Act Three of a comic-book movie, it kinda sucks. For Stark, his cool new gadget is both a fun toy (he can fly inside it, attracting the attention of military planes) and a weapon (for the climactic face-off with Iron Monger, a larger version of Iron Man). These are the episodes, executed with plenty of technical panache, which will keep young eyes stuck on the screen this weekend. Kids will see themselves in that kewl flight suit, and image that they are manipulating...
Throughout his presidency, George W. Bush has tried pretty much everything to get North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il to come out of his cage. He has tried to coerce him with economic sanctions and schoolboy bluster - a policy course that ended in 2006, when Kim tested a nuclear weapon, precisely the opposite of the result Bush intended. Since then, the Administration has tried bribery, offering blandishments like free food and fuel oil in hopes that North Korea would stand down its nuclear program. Kim has responded a bit - his nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, which produced the fissile material...
...door briefing sessions on Africa sponsored by intelligence agencies, I've found nearly every question focuses on negative aspects of China's rise - whether it will undercut efforts to promote better governance in Africa, and whether China's thirst for oil will push out Western firms while boosting Chinese weapon sales to Africa. In part to shore up its position there, the Pentagon has launched a new Africa Command, its first unit designed to focus on the continent...