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...scrambled its jets since the start of fighting - raining down Wagnerian fury on cities and armies. In open combat, Iraq's armored divisions are being annihilated by allied forces. In such circumstances, it is natural for the Iraqis to resort to small-scale strikes on lightly armed targets, to avoid open combat, and to practice deception at all times...
...destroyers and cruisers nearest shore. I saw a large plane fly low over the water from the direction of Honolulu into battleship row and drop a torpedo toward the middle of the ships. The plane then turned toward Aiea, my hometown, hugging the surface of the water to avoid antiaircraft fire. As the plane flew a few hundred feet over my head, I saw the pilot with a canvas helmet and large goggles over his eyes looking down at me. As the plane headed north toward the mountains, I saw Japan's insignia, the Rising Sun. "How dare they come...
...rare commentator who avoided any mention of Aldous Huxley. Some warned of baby farms and assembly lines of fetuses grown in test tubes, of rich women renting poor women's wombs to avoid the inconvenience of pregnancy. But fear was no match for dreams for thousands of infertile couples: "I would hope that within a very few years ... this will be a fairly commonplace affair," said Robert Edwards, one of the doctors. Louise is now 24, and 1 million babies later, that prophecy has come true. --By Nancy Gibbs
Only two weeks ago, protesters at the University of Minnesota were screaming for the Bush Administration to avoid war. Today's message is "Support U.S. troops. Bring them home," says Ty Moore, 25, an organizer with a student coalition against war in Iraq. Groups now must walk the delicate line between protest and patriotism. They need to find a way to be antiwar without being perceived as anti--U.S. troops, and every new decision poses a threat to ideological unity. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, for instance, has conceded that it failed to stop the war and has shifted...
...allies face stiffer resistance near Baghdad. Although Rumsfeld insisted that the U.S.'s massive aerial blitz has spared not just civilians but also infrastructure targets like roads, bridges and power plants, there was less certainty among some of the soldiers who carried out the attacks. "We want to avoid collateral damage, but that is the most difficult thing," said a combat pilot aboard the U.S.S. Constellation after returning from a bombing run. "When we drop that bomb, we know that someone is dying...